Crossword Puzzle Number 1655 (Medium Grid)

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1. Antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns.
5. American landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City (1822-1903).
12. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
15. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
16. German mathematician (1882-1935).
17. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
18. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
19. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
24. A humorous anecdote or remark.
25. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
28. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A member of the Dravidian people living in northern Bengal in eastern India.
36. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
39. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
42. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
43. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
45. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
46. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
48. A state in northwestern North America.
50. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
53. Placed in a grave.
56. A six-sided polygon.
57. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
58. Half the width of an em.
59. Moderate or restrain.
60. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
63. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
64. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
65. The selling of something purchased.
68. The capital of Croatia.
73. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
76. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
77. A railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution.
80. The cry made by sheep.
81. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
83. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
84. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
85. A French abbot.
86. Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers.
87. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.

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1. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
2. An instinctive motive.
3. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
5. Used of a single unit or thing.
6. Any stoppage attributable to unusual activity.
7. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
8. Any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large evil-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers.
9. Something that is a source of danger.
10. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
11. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
14. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
21. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. Reduced to liquid form by heating.
31. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
33. Involving two dimensions.
37. Tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp.
38. A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood.
40. God of justice.
41. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
44. Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio.
47. (Norse mythology) An enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
52. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
54. Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war).
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. The Creator.
62. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
66. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
67. To fix or set securely or deeply.
69. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
70. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
71. South African term for `boss'.
72. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
74. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
75. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
78. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
79. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
82. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.

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