Crossword Puzzle Number 3317 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
4. A hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover.
11. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
18. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
20. Occurring or done each day.
21. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
22. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
24. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
27. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. The father of your father or mother.
34. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
39. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
40. In an ideal manner.
41. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
43. Bright and pleasant.
44. Misery resulting from affliction.
45. A quantity of no importance.
48. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
51. Cause to be bitter or resentful.
53. One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.
54. Having been read.
55. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
60. The second largest state.
62. Any plant of the genus Erica.
66. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
69. Not agitated.
71. A doctor's degree in music.
72. Type genus of the Adelgidae.
74. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
76. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
77. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
78. A person who fights duels.
80. (British) Informal term for information.
81. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
82. Suffering from a partial loss of memory.
83. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.

DOWN

1. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
4. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
7. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
8. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
9. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
10. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
11. A long-playing phonograph record.
12. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
19. Rub elbows with.
23. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
25. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
26. A Hindu prince or king in India.
28. (psychology) Characterized by acceptance or approach.
29. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
32. A housing for a radar antenna.
33. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
35. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
36. Of or relating to alga.
37. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
38. The eighth month of the civil year.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning.
47. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
49. A French abbot.
50. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
52. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
56. (British) Seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater.
59. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
61. Being three more than forty.
63. An iconic mental representation.
64. A surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity.
65. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
70. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
73. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
75. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
79. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).

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