Crossword Puzzle Number 3510 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
5. The treasury of a public institution or religious order.
12. A humorous anecdote or remark.
15. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
16. Disturb the composure of.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
20. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
21. A shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits.
23. A member of the British order of honor.
24. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
28. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
30. Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection.
33. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
35. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
39. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
40. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
42. Containing ten or ten parts.
43. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
44. A town in northern Egypt.
48. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
49. The content of cognition.
51. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
53. Black tropical American cuckoo.
54. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
56. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
59. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
60. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease.
62. A wound made by cutting.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
73. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
75. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
76. A language user's knowledge of words.
79. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
80. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
81. A South American river 1,500 miles long.
82. A local computer network for communication between computers.
83. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
84. A second-rate prize fighter.
85. Either extremity of something that has length.

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1. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
2. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
3. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
4. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
5. A caress with the lips.
6. Remove from its packing.
7. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
8. Any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pealike flowers.
9. A large fleet.
10. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
11. A woman gossip.
12. An awkward stupid person.
13. American novelist (1909-1955).
14. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
22. Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time.
27. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
29. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
31. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
32. Found near the Channel Islands.
34. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
36. A street of small shops (especially in Orient).
37. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
38. An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean.
41. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. The basic unit of money in China.
47. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
50. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
52. The habitation of wild animals.
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
57. Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944).
58. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
61. Related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain.
63. United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933).
64. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
67. Administer an oil or ointment to.
68. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
69. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
71. Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground.
72. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
74. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
77. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
78. The sound made by a pigeon v 1.

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