Crossword Puzzle Number 3183 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
12. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A hypothesis that is taken for granted.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. An imperfection in a bodily system.
19. A plain plinth that supports a wall.
20. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Of or relating to a taxonomic order.
26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
28. A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal.
31. A Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains.
35. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
36. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
39. Treated with some kind of application.
40. A telephone connection.
41. A three-tone Chadic language.
44. A city in western Germany.
45. The wife or widow of a czar.
47. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
48. Twining perennial North American plants.
50. Having relatively few calories.
51. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
55. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. (informal) Exceptionally good.
65. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
69. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
71. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
72. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
75. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
76. Tropical American trees.
77. English monk and scholar (672-735).

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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person.
5. Providing nourishment.
6. A person forced to flee from home or country.
7. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
8. The natural satellite of the Earth.
9. Having escaped, especially from confinement.
10. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
13. Baby bed with high sides.
14. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. Of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck.
25. (of a roof) Constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall.
27. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
29. An implement used to erase something.
30. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
32. Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs.
33. Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.
34. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
37. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
38. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. Serving as or forming a base.
46. Relating to or included in the zodiac.
49. Walks with regular or stately step.
52. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
54. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
56. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
62. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
63. Dwell (archaic).
64. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
66. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
70. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
73. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
74. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.

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