Crossword Puzzle Number 2395 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
4. Herbs or shrubs or small trees.
12. Serving as an essential component.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. The state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body).
17. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
18. A pass between mountain peaks.
19. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
20. A telegram sent abroad.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
24. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
26. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
27. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
29. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
31. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
32. Someone whose business is advertising.
36. With rapid movements.
39. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
40. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. A city in central New York.
47. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
48. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
49. Unknown god.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. Indicating the most important performer or role.
54. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
55. A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
56. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
57. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
61. Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. A resident of Utah.
68. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bahrain or its people or language.
73. A homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the streets.
76. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
77. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
78. Coextensive with the family Oleaceae.
80. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
81. A kind of person.
82. A prosthesis placed permanently in tissue v 1.
83. A member of the Algonquian people living in Wisconsin the Fox River valley and the shores of Green Bay.

DOWN

1. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
2. Become ground down or deteriorate.
3. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
6. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
7. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
8. Having been introduced to something new.
9. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
10. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
11. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
12. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
13. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
14. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
21. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
23. Deciduous shrub of North America.
25. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
28. Of or like a cecum.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
33. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
34. Grow by addition, as of capital.
35. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
37. An aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity.
38. Typical geese.
41. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
43. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
44. Australian clover fern.
50. Hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists.
53. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
58. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. A medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer.
60. The father of your father or mother.
62. The capital city of Vietnam.
64. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
66. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
67. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
69. A primeval personification of air and breath.
70. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
71. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
72. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
74. The month following August and preceding October.
75. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
79. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.

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