Crossword Puzzle Number 1713 (Medium Grid)

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1. Inquire about.
4. Adjourn by royal prerogative.
12. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
15. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
16. Breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire.
17. Used of physical heat.
18. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
19. Behave well or properly.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
23. An oral poliovirus vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
25. Wild ox.
27. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
30. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
33. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
36. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
38. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
40. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
42. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
44. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. An associate degree in applied science.
48. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
51. An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money.
54. A dark gray mineral with a metallic luster that is a source of tin.
56. Perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.
57. A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong.
58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
60. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
61. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
62. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
64. An atoll in the Marshall islands.
70. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
74. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
75. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
77. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
78. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
79. The state capital of South Australia.
81. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
82. A woman religious.
83. A great raja.
84. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Type genus of the Sulidae.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
5. Produced or growing in extreme abundance.
6. Genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood.
7. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
8. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
9. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
10. In or of the month preceding the present one.
11. 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.
12. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
13. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
14. A state in the western United States.
20. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
22. The smallest detectable sensation.
24. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
29. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
31. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
34. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
35. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
37. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
39. Having the head uncovered.
41. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
43. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
45. A city of central Russia south of Moscow.
49. Pearl oysters.
50. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
52. Small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes.
53. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
55. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
59. The eleventh month of the civil year.
63. A genus of Platalea.
65. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
66. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
68. An endorsement.
69. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. English monk and scholar (672-735).
73. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
76. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
80. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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