Crossword Puzzle Number 3468 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A partially opened flower.
4. Light teasing repartee.
12. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
15. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
16. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
19. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
22. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist.
24. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
25. A formal expression of praise.
26. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
30. Any plaguelike disease of domestic animals.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
38. Produced by a manufacturing process.
40. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
42. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. 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.
48. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
49. Used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat.
50. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
54. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
55. The content of cognition.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. A location other than here.
61. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
65. Obvious and dull.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
79. A city in north-central India.
80. Having leadership guidance.
81. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
83. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
84. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
85. The first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor.
86. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.

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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
2. Relating to the Urdu language.
3. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
4. Summer cypress.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
9. Used of physical heat.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. An analgesic for mild pain.
12. Widely known and esteemed.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
21. A city and port in northern Jutland.
23. A public meeting or assembly for open discussion.
27. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
28. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
29. A resident of Ohio.
31. Having removed clothing.
32. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
33. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
35. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.
36. An embarrassing mistake.
39. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
41. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
44. Wearing or provided with clothing.
45. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
47. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
51. Common Indian weaverbird.
52. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
62. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
63. Lower in esteem.
64. Unknown god.
66. American novelist (1909-1955).
67. A quantity of no importance.
69. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
70. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
72. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
73. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
74. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
77. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
78. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia).
82. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.

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