Crossword Puzzle Number 2710 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
5. Type genus of the Timaliidae.
12. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
15. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
16. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
17. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
18. Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928).
20. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
22. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
23. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
26. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
28. Anything that covers or conceals.
29. Being nine more than forty.
31. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
32. Of or relating to growth by auxesis.
36. The fourth month of the civil year.
38. (Scotland) A landowner.
41. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
42. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
43. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
44. A filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works.
46. Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers.
50. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
51. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
52. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
55. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink.
60. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
62. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
66. A human female who does housework.
69. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
71. A branch of the Tai languages.
72. The capital of Croatia.
75. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
77. A master's degree in business.
78. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
79. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
81. Tag the base runner to get him out.
82. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
83. Someone skilled in the use of a rifle.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Male red deer.
2. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
3. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
4. A decree that prohibits something.
5. The first month of the civil year.
6. A steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall.
7. The force of workers available.
8. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
9. Of or relating to or resembling a lobule.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
12. A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile).
13. Disabled in the feet or legs.
14. Strip the skin off.
19. Formerly a gold coin of various European countries.
21. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
24. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
25. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
27. (Greek mythology) The brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus.
30. A substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid.
33. Something considered choice to eat.
34. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
35. The act of carrying something v 1.
37. Offering little or no hope.
39. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
40. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
45. United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859).
47. A city of central China.
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
49. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
53. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
54. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
56. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
57. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
58. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
59. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
61. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
63. A genus of Lamnidae.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Jordan's port.
67. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
68. Advanced in years.
70. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
73. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
74. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
76. (British) Your grandmother.
80. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.

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