Crossword Puzzle Number 1996 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
4. Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.
12. Inquire about.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. Having a margin with rounded scallops.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
20. Forced to turn and face attackers.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. The sixth month of the civil year.
23. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
26. The month following August and preceding October.
27. United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926).
29. A state in northwestern North America.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. Unknown god.
34. A book of the New Testament.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
42. An ancient Iranian language.
44. A master's degree in fine arts.
46. Cultivated in temperate regions.
47. Type genus of the Otariidae.
50. A cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte).
53. The item at the end.
55. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
59. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
62. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
64. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
65. A genus of Platalea.
67. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
69. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
72. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
75. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
76. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
77. A daughter of your brother or sister.
78. An associate degree in applied science.
82. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
83. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
84. Caused to be slower or later.
85. Chief port of Yemen.

DOWN

1. Informal terms for a mother.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
4. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
5. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
6. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
7. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
8. Wood of a larch tree.
9. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
10. A canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse).
11. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
19. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
24. Jordan's port.
25. Resembling or containing slate.
28. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
30. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
36. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
37. An internal representation of the world.
39. South African term for `boss'.
41. Not only so, but.
43. The month following March and preceding May.
45. The time during which someone's life continues.
48. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
49. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
51. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
52. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
54. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
58. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
60. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
61. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
63. Lower in esteem.
66. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
68. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
70. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
71. The nest of a squirrel.
73. The highest level or degree attainable.
74. Being of the age 13 through 19.
79. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
80. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
81. A doctor's degree in religion.

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