Crossword Puzzle Number 17 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
4. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
12. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
15. A local computer network for communication between computers.
16. A prophet of the first century.
17. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
18. A tax on various goods brought into a town.
20. A bachelor's degree in literature.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. New World flycatchers.
24. A mask with a filter protects the face an lungs against poisonous gases.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
30. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
32. Small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead.
33. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
37. Socialist who wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895).
41. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
42. Small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot.
44. Perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area.
46. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
48. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
49. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
52. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
54. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
55. Gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation.
57. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
59. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
62. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
63. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
66. The month following February and preceding April.
68. A public promotion of some product or service.
70. Type genus of the Amiidae.
72. A flask that holds spirits.
77. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
80. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
81. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
82. Having a sophisticated charm.
84. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
85. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
86. The widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid.
2. Made of or resembling lace.
3. (prefix) Within.
4. Stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen.
5. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
6. A doctor's degree in optometry.
7. God of the earth.
8. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
9. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
10. True confidential information.
11. An honorary arts degree.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. By bad luck.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
19. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
23. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
25. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
28. (Irish) Ancient Irish god (probably a god of the sun).
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. Complacently or inanely foolish.
34. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
35. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
36. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
38. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
39. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
40. A token that postal fees have been paid.
43. The residue that remains when something is burned.
45. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
47. The probability of a specified outcome.
51. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
58. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
60. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
64. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
65. The basic unit of money in Saudi Arabia.
67. A British doctorate.
69. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
71. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
73. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
74. An agenda of things to do.
75. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
76. God of love and erotic desire.
78. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
79. An operating system that is on a disk.
83. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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