Crossword Puzzle Number 3388 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
5. Evergreen tree of Pacific North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries.
12. The sign language used in the United States.
15. Balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine.
16. Small genus of Old World herbs usually included in genus Brassica.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
20. Cause to be embarrassed.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. Selected as the best.
27. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
29. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
31. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
32. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
40. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
42. Any of several seeds that yield oil.
45. Inability to walk.
47. Inquire about.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
53. An important question that is in dispute and must be settled.
54. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
55. A beautiful and graceful girl.
56. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
58. Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods.
60. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
64. Being one more than one hundred.
65. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
69. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
70. A quantity of no importance.
74. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
75. Coelenterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals.
79. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
80. Wild and domestic cattle.
81. One related on the mother's side.
82. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
83. In or of the month preceding the present one.
84. Thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricles of the brain and the spinal cord canal.
85. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.

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1. Any thick messy substance.
2. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes.
3. Moving quickly and lightly.
4. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
5. One thousandth of a second.
6. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
7. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
8. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
9. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
10. The seventh month of the civil year.
11. The residue that remains when something is burned.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
14. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. Any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
28. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
33. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
35. Sudanese sorghums having white seeds.
36. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
38. Lower in esteem.
39. Spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
44. The overhang at the lower edge of a roof.
46. True lizards.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
51. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.
52. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.
57. A bachelor's degree in science.
59. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
61. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
62. Fruit of the oak tree.
63. Lacking wit or imagination.
66. Absent without permission.
67. In or of the present month.
68. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
76. A tight-fitting headdress.
77. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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