Crossword Puzzle Number 3687 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
5. (linguistics) Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.
12. The seventh and last day of the week.
15. Not widely known.
16. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
17. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
18. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
19. A loud resonant repeating noise.
20. The month following July and preceding September.
21. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
22. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
23. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
25. Two items of the same kind.
29. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
32. A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey.
37. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
38. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
40. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
41. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
42. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
45. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
46. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
47. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
50. A rapid bustling commotion.
51. An associate degree in nursing.
53. A song that was formerly popular.
54. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. An honorary arts degree.
62. Informal terms for a mother.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
65. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
67. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
71. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
74. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
75. A member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD.
78. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
79. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
80. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
82. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
83. A young woman making her debut into society.
84. A great raja.
85. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.

DOWN

1. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
2. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
3. The mother of your father or mother.
4. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
5. A large fleet.
6. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
8. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
9. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
10. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
11. A young eagle.
12. A fraudulent business scheme.
13. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
14. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
24. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
26. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
27. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
28. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
30. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
33. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
34. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
35. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
36. The first light of day.
39. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
43. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
44. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
48. Any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pealike flowers.
49. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. The ending of a series or sequence.
58. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
59. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
61. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
63. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
66. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
68. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
69. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
70. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. One thousandth of a second.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. The month following March and preceding May.
81. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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