Crossword Puzzle Number 2243 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. A musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition.
12. To an excessive degree.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
16. A size of paper used especially in Britain.
17. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord (a notochord) conspicuous in the larva.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
21. To whatever place.
23. A radioactive transuranic element.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
27. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
30. Avatar of Vishnu.
32. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
34. An East Indian sailor.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. The agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered.
41. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
44. Of or relating to or shaped like a toroid.
48. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes.
49. A suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water.
50. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
52. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
53. A doctor's degree in optometry.
54. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
59. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
61. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
64. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
66. An informal term for a father.
68. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
70. The capital of Croatia.
72. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
75. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
78. A native American tent.
79. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
82. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
83. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
84. A sneezeweed of southwestern United States especially southern California.
85. A light touch or stroke.
86. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
87. Cooked in steam.
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
3. A small fragment.
4. Many times at short intervals.
5. Smelling of fermentation or staleness.
6. Either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx.
7. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
8. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
9. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
10. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
13. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
14. The ending of a series or sequence.
22. A place where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
24. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
28. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
33. (archaic) Of persons.
35. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
38. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
39. An episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll.
40. English essayist (1775-1834).
42. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
43. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
45. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
46. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
47. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
51. Type genus of Cladoniaceae.
56. (informal) Exceptionally good.
57. A pen for swine.
58. Of or relating to the sea.
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
67. Lower in esteem.
69. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
71. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
73. Steering mechanism for a vessel.
74. A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior.
76. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
77. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
80. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
81. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.

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