Crossword Puzzle Number 2091 (Medium Grid)

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1. The time during which someone's life continues.
5. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits.
12. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
15. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
16. European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison.
17. How long something has existed.
18. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
20. Razor clams.
21. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
25. One who intrudes or pushes himself forward.
29. Deprived of color.
30. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
33. English film actress (1913-1967).
34. Disposed to venture or take risks.
37. An associate degree in nursing.
38. A compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight.
43. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
45. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
46. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.
47. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
48. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
58. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
60. A group of countries in special alliance.
64. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
65. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
66. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
67. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
69. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
70. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
72. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
73. French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842).
76. Being one more than two.
77. Inquire about.
78. Type genus of Cladoniaceae.
79. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.

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1. Fallow deer.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
4. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
5. A horse used to set the pace in racing.
6. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
7. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
8. German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923).
9. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
10. A member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia.
11. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
12. Everyone except the clergy.
13. Be in accord.
14. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
19. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
24. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language.
27. Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast.
28. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
31. Held back.
32. Become ground down or deteriorate.
35. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
36. A quick look.
39. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Expel, as of gases and odors.
42. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
44. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
49. A city in central Florida.
50. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. Ground snakes.
53. In the area or vicinity.
56. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
57. English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992).
59. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
61. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
62. Rounded like an egg.
63. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
68. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
74. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
75. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.

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