Crossword Puzzle Number 244 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The seventh and last day of the week.
4. A genus of Tettigoniidae.
11. A member of a formerly tribal people in south central India.
15. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
16. Merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film).
17. The capital of Western Samoa.
18. The month following July and preceding September.
19. A representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.
20. For fear that.
21. An unwholesome atmosphere.
23. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
24. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
26. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
28. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
35. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
39. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
41. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
43. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
44. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
45. A doctor's degree in religion.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. Recite in elocution.
54. Not performed on the stage.
57. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
58. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
59. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
61. 16 ounces.
62. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
63. Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804).
66. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
69. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
74. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
77. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
79. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
81. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
82. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
83. An animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant).
85. A light touch or stroke.
86. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
87. Of or relating to speech sounds.
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
3. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
4. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
5. A state in the western United States.
6. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
7. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
8. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
9. 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.
10. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower.
11. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. Not final or absolute.
14. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
22. Singing jazz.
25. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
27. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
29. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
31. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
32. An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.
36. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
37. Having the power to influence or convince.
38. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967).
49. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
50. A motley assortment of things.
52. Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north.
53. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
55. Tag the base runner to get him out.
56. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
60. A native of ancient Troy.
64. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
65. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
67. The female or generative principle.
68. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
70. An inhabitant of Lappland.
72. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
73. The bill in a restaurant.
75. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
76. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
78. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
80. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
84. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.

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