Crossword Puzzle Number 2709 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Lacking a crew.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. Of or relating to ground water.
22. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
25. An informal term for a father.
26. Largest city in North Dakota.
31. Jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt.
34. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
38. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
39. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
41. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
42. On or toward the lee.
45. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
48. Gone by.
49. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
52. Cut with or as if with scissors.
54. The honeycreepers.
56. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
57. Relating to only part of a whole.
58. The content of cognition.
59. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
61. The cry made by sheep.
63. Type genus of the Apidae.
65. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596).
69. (formal) By means of this.
73. Having accumulated or become more intense.
75. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
78. A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes.
79. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
82. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
83. A branch of the Tai languages.
84. Of a particle or body or system.
85. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. Related to or located at the back.
4. Fiddler crabs.
5. A state in New England.
6. Evil or harmful in nature or influence.
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
9. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
10. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
11. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. A sudden short attack.
14. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
19. A beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans.
21. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
23. The sixth day of the week.
24. Carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. A state in east central United States.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
32. Leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo.
33. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
35. Squash bugs.
36. Something hard to endure.
37. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
40. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
43. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner.
44. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
46. The residue that remains when something is burned.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
50. An expression of greeting.
51. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
53. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
55. Greek mythology.
60. Send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code.
62. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
64. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
66. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
70. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
71. Make anew.
72. Not only so, but.
74. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
81. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.

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