Crossword Puzzle Number 3405 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
4. Viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc..
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
16. (physics) Of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states.
17. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
18. Move out of an unsafe location into safety.
20. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
22. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
23. The capital city of Vietnam.
25. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
27. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
30. One thousandth of a second.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. Exercise that increases the need for oxygen.
39. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
41. Used of a single unit or thing.
42. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
43. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
45. Selected as the best.
47. (British) Sleep.
48. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
50. Experiencing or bestowing celestial joy.
52. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
55. The range within which a voice can be heard.
56. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
57. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
59. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
61. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
66. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
71. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
73. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
74. Any plant of the genus Erica.
75. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
76. Make flat or flatter.
79. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
80. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
81. Of a leaf shape.
82. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.

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1. A professional cook.
2. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
3. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
4. Short and fat.
5. The basic unit of money in China.
6. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
7. Absent-minded dreaming while awake.
8. A state in New England.
9. A state in midwestern United States.
10. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
11. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
12. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
13. A Spanish river.
14. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
19. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
21. (British) Your grandmother.
24. Membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi.
26. A long brightly colored shawl.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
31. Having vision, not blind n 1.
32. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
35. Ludicrously odd.
36. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
38. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
40. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
44. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
46. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
49. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
51. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
53. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
54. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
58. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
60. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
62. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
63. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
64. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
65. Make less active or intense.
67. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. Weapons considered collectively.
72. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
77. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
78. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.

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