Crossword Puzzle Number 3498 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
12. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
15. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
16. Dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
17. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Having removed clothing.
20. Make less active or intense.
22. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
24. With eagerness.
26. A palace and fortress built in Granada by the Moslems in the Middle Ages.
29. The act of scanning.
32. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
33. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
37. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. 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).
44. Taking place over public roads.
45. Pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866).
48. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
50. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
51. Relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters.
52. Brilliantly colored Asian pheasant having wattles and two fleshy processes on the head.
54. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
55. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
56. A soft silvery metallic element.
58. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
60. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
62. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
66. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
72. A telegram sent abroad.
73. In bed.
74. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. Irritate or vex.
76. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
80. A decree that prohibits something.
81. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
82. (physics) Involving a transfer of heat.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
3. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
4. The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale).
5. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
6. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
7. A person whose head is bald.
8. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
9. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
10. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
11. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
12. A human female who does housework.
13. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
14. Be obedient to.
21. A baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
23. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. Consider or hold as true.
30. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
31. A church associated with a monastery or convent.
34. For or by a group rather than individuals.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
38. The sacred city of Lamaism.
40. The act of escaping physically.
42. Being the only one.
43. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
46. One thousandth of a second.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
49. How long something has existed.
53. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
57. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
59. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
61. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
63. Jordan's port.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
68. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
69. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
70. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
77. A state in New England.
78. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
79. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.

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