Crossword Puzzle Number 1685 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
4. Transactions having the objective of supplying commodities.
12. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
15. Select as an alternative.
16. Genus of tropical American timber trees.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
20. An uneasy state.
22. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. An informal term for a father.
26. A tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. (informal) Exceptionally good.
33. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
34. COmmon Business Oriented Language.
38. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
40. Toward the mouth or oral region.
44. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
45. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
46. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
49. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
50. A drawing intended to explain how something works.
52. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
54. A public toilet in a military area.
55. An informal term for a father.
57. A resource.
58. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
59. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.
61. An uproarious party.
63. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
65. Before noon.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
75. The month following February and preceding April.
78. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
79. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
80. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
82. Taken or to be taken at random.
83. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
84. A republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
2. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
3. A thrusting blow with a knife.
4. A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer.
5. A Japanese supervisor.
6. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
7. A master's degree in education.
8. Half the width of an em.
9. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
10. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
11. Take in solid food.
12. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
13. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
14. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
19. English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940).
21. Australian evergreen shrubs.
23. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. Very dark black.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Relating to or near the radius.
32. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
35. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
36. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
37. The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
39. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
41. Lacking any definite plan or order or purpose.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
47. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
48. A primeval personification of air and breath.
51. A student who studies excessively.
53. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
56. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
60. Leave voluntarily.
62. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
64. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
66. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
67. A native-born Israeli.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
71. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
72. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
73. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
74. A French abbot.
76. The unit of frequency.
77. A flexible container with a single opening.
81. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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