Crossword Puzzle Number 3604 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
4. Eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms.
12. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
15. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
16. The property of having little body fat.
17. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
18. Moving quickly on foot.
20. Causing great physical or mental suffering.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
25. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
28. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
30. Consisting of or combining two races.
32. A language of Australian aborigines.
36. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
37. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
39. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
40. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
42. A group of countries in special alliance.
45. A certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee.
46. Before noon.
47. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
49. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
51. A county in southeastern England.
52. The act of washing yourself (or another person).
55. Being two more than ninety.
56. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
57. (astronomy) A relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit.
59. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
62. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
65. A republic in western South America.
66. Leather covering the toe of a boot or shoe and reinforcing or decorating it.
68. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
71. An internal representation of the world.
74. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
75. A Hindu prince or king in India.
78. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
79. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
82. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
83. The sign language used in the United States.
84. A town in east central Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. A town in western California south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay.
4. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
5. (biology) Relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus.
6. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
7. An associate degree in nursing.
8. A state in east central United States.
9. (formal) A person who announces important news.
10. The Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people.
11. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
12. Morally bad or wrong.
13. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
14. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
19. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
21. United States filmmaker (born in 1928).
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
26. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
27. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
31. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
33. A cap with no brim or bill.
34. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
35. 100 lepta equal 1 drachma.
38. Male cat.
41. A tapering point.
43. Being ten more than sixty.
44. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
48. A drama set to music.
50. A subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event.
53. A white trivalent metallic element.
54. A populous province in northeastern China.
58. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
60. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
61. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
64. French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870).
67. Type genus of the Percidae.
69. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
70. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
72. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
73. A French abbot.
76. The first month of the year.
77. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
80. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
81. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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