Crossword Puzzle Number 2296 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
4. Of or relating to or containing basalt.
12. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
15. An associate degree in applied science.
16. Someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose).
17. An affirmative.
18. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
19. A man who serves as a sailor.
20. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
22. Relating to or containing diazonium.
24. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
26. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
27. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
28. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
29. Serving as or forming a base.
30. Not widely known.
32. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
33. Happening or recurring at regular intervals.
37. A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).
41. Of or relating to or involving an area.
42. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
45. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
46. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin).
52. Large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. A hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resin.
56. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. Not only so, but.
61. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
62. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
67. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
69. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
74. Congenital absence of an arm or leg.
77. A port in southwestern Scotland.
78. Situated at the top or highest position.
79. The animal order including amoebas.
81. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
82. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
83. Country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other.
84. The residue that remains when something is burned.

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1. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
2. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
3. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
4. A broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle.
5. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
6. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
7. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
8. A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
9. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
10. That is to say.
11. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
12. City in Sudan.
13. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
14. American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814).
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
25. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
31. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
34. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
35. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
36. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
38. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
39. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.
40. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
43. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
44. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. The British system of withholding tax.
51. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
53. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
57. Of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people.
59. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
63. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
64. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
66. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
68. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
70. Marked by good order and cleanliness in appearance or habits.
71. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
72. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
73. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
75. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
76. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
80. In operation or operational.

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