Crossword Puzzle Number 3143 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. A public register showing the details of ownership and value of land.
12. An enclosed space.
15. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. Absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters).
17. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
18. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
20. Come to pass.
21. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
23. A drink credited with magical power.
26. A member of the Caddo people of NE Texas.
28. A musical percussion instrument.
29. God of wisdom or prophesy.
32. Young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf.
33. Being or given to servile imitation.
34. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
37. State in northeastern India.
41. Curved or curving in and out.
44. 1 species.
46. Give to, in marriage.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
49. Pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit.
51. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
53. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
54. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
55. People having the same social or economic status.
58. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
63. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
65. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
68. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
72. A light touch or stroke.
73. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.
76. Enthusiastic approval.
77. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
78. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
81. A young woman making her debut into society.
82. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
83. American novelist (1909-1955).

DOWN

1. Point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch).
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
4. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
5. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
6. The quality of being fraudulent.
7. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
8. Silence (someone) by uttering "shush!".
9. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. A member of the Japanese people living on the Ryukyu islands southwest of Japan.
12. The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled.
13. Jordan's port.
14. The part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum.
19. A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience.
22. American divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication.
24. A tropical cyclone occurring in the W Pacific or Indian oceans.
25. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
27. A person's brother or sister.
30. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
31. Coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. The site of an archeological exploration.
38. Resembling a serpent in form.
39. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
40. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
42. A city in central New York.
43. Be going to.
45. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
50. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
56. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
57. A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea.
59. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
64. 16 ounces.
66. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
67. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
69. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
70. A feeling of intense anger.
71. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
74. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
75. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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