Crossword Puzzle Number 1879 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
4. Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC).
12. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
17. An accidental happening.
18. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
19. Of or in or relating to the nose.
20. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
21. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
24. A resident of Iowa.
26. A small syringe with detachable nozzles.
29. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
31. An informal term for a father.
33. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
34. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
37. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
39. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
42. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
44. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
47. Before noon.
49. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
50. Small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker.
53. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
54. Muslim name for God.
56. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
58. A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas.
60. Lacking motor coordination.
62. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
63. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
64. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
68. A disreputable vagrant.
71. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. A fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery.
80. (British) Your grandmother.
81. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
82. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
83. A branch of the Tai languages.
84. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
85. Thin-shelled freshwater mussels.
86. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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1. God of death.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
4. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
5. A large and stately mansion.
6. Being nine more than forty.
7. Make a clean breast of.
8. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
9. A genus of Laridae.
10. Fiddler crabs.
11. A member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD.
12. Requiring much chewing.
13. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
14. The complete duration of something.
23. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
25. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
27. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
30. A police officer who investigates crimes.
32. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
35. Affectedly trendy.
36. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
38. (informal) Very good.
40. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
41. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
43. Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
45. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
46. A state in New England.
48. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
51. A clergyman who watches over a group of people.
52. Allow to enter.
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
59. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
66. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
67. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
69. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
70. Brought into existence.
72. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
73. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
74. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
77. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
78. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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