Crossword Puzzle Number 1993 (Medium Grid)

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62 63 64    65   66 67 68  69   
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79     80        81   

ACROSS

1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. The visual percept of a region.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
17. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
20. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
21. A genus of Indriidae.
23. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
25. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
28. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
32. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
33. The provision of something by issuing it (usually in quantity).
34. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
39. Being of delicate or slender build.
45. Growing on or living among rocks.
48. Lacking motor coordination.
49. Imperfect development.
50. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. A program that is broadcast again.
53. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune.
56. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
58. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
59. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
62. (biology) Having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus.
66. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
69. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.
73. A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt.
74. Turn sharply.
76. A distillery where beer is brewed.
78. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
79. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
80. Strip something of drapery.
81. Take in solid food.

DOWN

1. Offering fun and gaiety.
2. Speaking a Slavic language.
3. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
7. The smallest of the Great Lakes.
8. Having no parts resembling rays.
9. An alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy.
10. A state in New England.
11. The residue that remains when something is burned.
12. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
13. Clear to the mind.
14. Make less active or intense.
22. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
24. Easy and graceful in shape.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Be earlier in time.
31. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
35. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
36. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
37. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
38. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
40. Of or relating to the hands.
41. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
42. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
43. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
44. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
46. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
47. Having an illustrious reputation.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
55. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
57. Found along western Atlantic coast.
60. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
61. A ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land.
63. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
64. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
65. A circular segment of a curve.
67. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
68. Make amends for.
72. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
75. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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