Crossword Puzzle Number 20 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Inquire about.
4. A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes.
12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
15. An accountant certified by the state.
16. Winner of a Nobel Prize.
17. A human limb.
18. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
19. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. The capital city of Vietnam.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
26. A quantity of no importance.
27. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
31. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
33. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
35. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
43. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
45. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
47. Freetail bats.
48. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
49. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
51. Beside one another in a row or rank.
52. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
53. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
55. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
56. Immature of its kind.
59. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
61. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
62. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
64. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
66. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
73. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
74. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
77. Jordan's port.
78. (informal) Very tired.
79. Of or relating to or containing the mineral augite.
81. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
82. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
83. Being of the age 13 through 19.
84. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.

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1. A book of the New Testament.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
4. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
5. A guidebook describing the roads of a country.
6. A French abbot.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
9. An engineering university in Cambridge.
10. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
11. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.
14. Type genus of the Amiidae.
21. (botany) Capable of fertilizing female organs.
23. The basic unit of money in Panama.
25. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
28. Informal terms for a mother.
30. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
32. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
34. Singing jazz.
36. A city in Veneto.
37. Having a claw or claws.
39. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
41. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
42. A Nilotic language.
44. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
46. The capital of Turkey.
50. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
54. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
57. Leave voluntarily.
58. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
60. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
63. Not clearly understood or expressed.
65. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
67. On or toward the lee.
68. The act of scanning.
69. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
70. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
71. Very dark black.
72. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
76. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
80. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.

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