Crossword Puzzle Number 2415 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
4. Semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around Bordeaux in France.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Relating to abdominal delivery.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. One of a family of granular intrusive rocks.
20. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
22. Archaic name for England or Great Britain.
23. Capable of being attained or accomplished.
25. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
28. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
29. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
31. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
33. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
38. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
40. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
41. Your general store of remembered information.
43. A notice of someone's death.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
48. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
49. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
51. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
53. Jordan's port.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
56. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
62. Similar or related in quality or character.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
65. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
66. Of southern Europe.
68. A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court.
75. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
76. A path over which electrical signals can pass.
79. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
80. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
81. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere.
82. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
83. Used of a single unit or thing.
84. Any of a group of enzymes (trade name Lactaid) that hydrolyze lactose to glucose and galactose.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. German dramatist (1813-1863).
4. Relating to or having or lying within a scrotum.
5. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
6. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
7. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
10. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
11. Related on the mother's side.
12. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
14. American novelist (1909-1955).
19. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
24. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
30. Cause to be attached.
32. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
34. A city in northern India.
35. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
36. A large fleet.
39. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704).
42. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
44. A committee having supervisory powers.
45. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
47. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
50. Someone whose business is advertising.
52. Official routes of communication.
54. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
57. A state in northwestern North America.
60. Refuse to acknowledge.
61. Situated at an apex.
67. Type genus of the Percidae.
69. Very dark black.
70. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
71. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
72. On or toward the lee.
73. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
74. A French abbot.
77. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
78. Remaining after all deductions.

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