Crossword Puzzle Number 1704 (Medium Grid)

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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels.
12. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. An official report (usually sent in haste).
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
20. God of justice.
21. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
22. A fit of shivering.
23. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
25. Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods.
27. The sound made by a cow or bull.
29. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
31. Early-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States.
34. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
39. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
40. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
43. The agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered.
47. A general direction in which something tends to move.
48. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
49. Affect with wonder.
51. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
52. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
53. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
55. Before noon.
58. A path set aside for walking.
60. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
62. An honorary arts degree.
64. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
69. Having two faces or fronts.
72. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
73. Using speech rather than writing.
74. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
76. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
77. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
81. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
82. Black tropical American cuckoo.
83. An island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. English monk and scholar (672-735).
2. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
3. Shrub bearing round-fruited kumquats.
4. Not divisible by two.
5. Elevated open grassland in southern Africa.
6. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
7. Rate of revolution of a motor.
8. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
9. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
10. Barely adequate.
11. A branch of the Tai languages.
12. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
13. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
14. The act of scanning.
19. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
24. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. Related to or having filaments especially across a field of view.
28. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
30. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
33. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
35. (prefix) Within.
36. A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence.
37. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
38. Intensely fashionable for a short time.
41. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
42. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
44. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
45. Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness.
46. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
50. A reformed prostitute.
54. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
56. The state of owing money.
57. Wild and menacing.
59. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
61. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
63. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes.
66. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
70. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
71. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
75. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
78. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
79. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
80. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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