Crossword Puzzle Number 2720 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A police officer who investigates crimes.
4. Fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather.
12. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
15. The residue that remains when something is burned.
16. A substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I').
17. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
18. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
20. English monk and scholar (672-735).
21. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
23. Flavored with sour orange peel.
26. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
31. A loud harsh or strident noise.
32. A vending machine from which you can get food.
37. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
39. An informal term for a father.
43. (Zen Buddhism) A state of sudden spiritual enlightenment.
44. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
46. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
47. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
48. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
49. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
51. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
52. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
54. A game played with playing cards.
57. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully.
60. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
62. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
64. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
66. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
70. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
74. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
76. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
77. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
81. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
82. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
83. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
84. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.

DOWN

1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
3. Make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird.
4. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
5. Directed or moving inward or toward a center.
6. A formal expression of praise.
7. Late time of life.
8. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
9. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. Not only so, but.
12. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
13. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
14. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
19. Constituting or relating to a tail.
22. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
24. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
25. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827).
33. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
34. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
35. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
36. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
38. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
40. With rapid movements.
41. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
42. Feeling or showing anger.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. Relating to or lying near the palate.
55. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
56. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
58. Avatar of Vishnu.
59. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. An ordered reference standard.
65. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
67. Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.
68. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
69. A town in north central Oklahoma.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
73. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
75. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
78. An informal term for a father.
79. An associate degree in nursing.
80. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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