Crossword Puzzle Number 2014 (Medium Grid)

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78    79  80   81    82   
83    84         85   

ACROSS

1. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
5. (of non-living objects) The state of being free of pathogenic organisms.
12. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
15. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
16. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. Knock unconscious or senseless.
19. A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing).
20. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
22. A fact that has been verified.
24. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
25. A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid used as an inhalation anesthetic.
26. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
27. A refuge from attack.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
32. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
38. Signal with the hands or nod.
42. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
43. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
44. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
45. (Babylonian) The sky god.
47. Jordan's port.
49. An enclosed space.
50. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
53. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
56. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
59. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
60. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
61. In bed.
63. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
66. Lower in esteem.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
75. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
76. Radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked.
78. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
82. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
83. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
84. The visual percept of a region.
85. A rapid bustling commotion.

DOWN

1. The female or generative principle.
2. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
3. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard).
4. Any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. (archaic) Truth or reality.
7. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
8. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
9. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
10. Being one more than one.
11. Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786).
12. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
13. A row of unravelled stitches.
14. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
21. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
23. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
28. Of or relating to Fabianism.
30. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
33. Containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions.
34. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
35. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
37. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
39. 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.
40. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
41. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
46. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
48. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
51. One or more recordings issued together.
52. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
54. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
55. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. One of a family of granular intrusive rocks.
62. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
64. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
65. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
67. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
69. A Loloish language.
70. Representation of the cross on which Jesus died.
71. (prefix) Within.
73. Of southern Europe.
74. An accountant certified by the state.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. An associate degree in nursing.
81. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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