Crossword Puzzle Number 3241 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
4. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
12. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
15. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
16. Shaped like a cube.
17. Bark in a high-pitched tone.
18. Mollusk with a low conical shell.
20. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
21. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
22. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. Having a sophisticated charm.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of Monaco or its people.
33. The eleventh month of the civil year.
36. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
37. The square of a body of any size of type.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A genus of Indriidae.
50. Strong and sharp.
53. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
54. God of death.
55. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
64. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
66. A colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils.
70. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
74. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
75. Bursting into flower.
78. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
79. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
80. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
82. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
83. An informal term for a father.
84. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
85. Tropical starchy tuberous root.

DOWN

1. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
2. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
3. Fallow deer.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
6. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
7. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
8. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
9. Being ten more than eighty.
10. Jordan's port.
11. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
12. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
13. Being one more than seven.
14. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
19. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
24. A decree that prohibits something.
26. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938).
32. Relating to or accompanying birth.
34. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
35. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
38. A member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay.
39. A quantity of no importance.
41. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
43. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
49. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
51. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
52. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
58. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
59. A genus of fern sometimes placed in its own family Azollaceae.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
65. Being one more than one hundred.
67. The content of cognition.
68. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
69. A worthless lazy fellow.
71. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
72. A town in north central Oklahoma.
73. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
76. Not divisible by two.
77. The sound made by a cow or bull.
81. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.

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