Crossword Puzzle Number 2972 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An informal term for a father.
4. A sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet.
12. The unit of frequency.
15. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
16. Fringed or adorned with tassels.
17. Towards the side away from the wind.
18. Money demanded for the return of a captured person.
20. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
21. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
22. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
24. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
26. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
28. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
31. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
33. Excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness.
42. Adult female chicken.
43. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
45. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
46. A resource.
47. Unknown god.
48. The month following January and preceding March.
49. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
51. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
54. Suitable for use as food.
56. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
57. Expressing offensive reproach.
60. A port in southwestern Scotland.
61. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
63. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
65. A person of unquestioning obedience.
68. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
71. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
75. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
77. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
79. A city in the European part of Russia.
80. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
81. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
83. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
84. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
85. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
86. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. The brightest star in Cygnus.
4. A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightening.
5. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
6. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
8. A young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals.
9. European shad.
10. Appear again.
11. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
12. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
13. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
14. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
19. The capital and largest city of South Korea.
23. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle).
32. One who helps or encourages or incites another.
34. Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences.
35. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
36. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
37. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
38. A populous province in northeastern China.
39. Jordan's port.
40. Muscular and heavily built.
41. A stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably).
44. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
53. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
55. The eleventh month of the civil year.
58. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
59. The intended recipient of a message.
62. Cause to be embarrassed.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
66. The act of rubbing or wiping.
67. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
69. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
70. A town in north central Oklahoma.
72. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
73. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
74. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
76. An accountant certified by the state.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
82. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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