Crossword Puzzle Number 2693 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. An associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship).
12. An accountant certified by the state.
15. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
16. A merchant who sells goods at retail.
17. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
18. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
20. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
22. The sixth month of the civil year.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A native of ancient Troy.
27. Oblong cream puff.
29. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
32. United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967).
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
41. Related by blood.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. Feel admiration for.
46. Any of various plants of the genus Aralia.
49. French psychologist remembered for his studies of the intellectual development of children (1857-1911).
50. Type genus of the Ranidae.
54. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
55. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
58. Toward the mouth or oral region.
60. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
61. A sum of money allotted on a regular basis.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
70. Largest known toad species.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. How long something has existed.
79. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
80. The front limb (or homologous structure in other animals such as a flipper or wing).
81. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
82. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
83. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
84. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).

DOWN

1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
2. Taking place over public roads.
3. Type genus of the Amiidae.
4. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
5. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
6. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
7. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
8. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
9. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
10. A small tessera.
11. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
13. Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
19. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
21. Of or relating to or containing balsam.
23. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A city in central southwestern Iran.
31. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
33. Unknown god.
35. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
38. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
39. A particular environment or walk of life.
40. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
45. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
47. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
48. Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers.
51. A cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend.
52. A small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall.
53. An informal term for a father.
56. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
57. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
59. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
62. Someone who consumes food for nourishment.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
66. A city in northern India.
67. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
69. Costing 10 dollars.
71. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
72. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
73. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
75. A master's degree in fine arts.
76. Distant but within sight.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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