Crossword Puzzle Number 3724 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A small drink.
4. Octopuses and paper nautilus.
12. (informal) Of the highest quality.
15. A pass between mountain peaks.
16. A horizontal beam that extends across something.
17. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
18. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
19. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
20. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British).
26. Very dark black.
27. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
29. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
30. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
31. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
33. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. A primeval personification of air and breath.
37. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. The slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus).
48. Report or maintain.
51. Any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
52. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
53. A Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream.
55. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
56. Order by virtue of superior authority.
58. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
61. Informal terms for a mother.
62. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
66. An extreme state of adversity.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
73. Before noon.
74. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
76. Produce ankylosis by surgery.
78. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
80. Give support or one's blessing to.
83. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
84. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
85. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
86. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
3. Appeal or request earnestly.
4. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
5. Tropical genus of small trees or shrubs.
6. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
7. Too old to be useful.
8. The ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary.
9. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
10. An honorary degree in science.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
13. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
14. Make improvements or corrections to.
21. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966).
28. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
32. Being one more than ten.
36. Cattle that are reared for their milk.
38. French philosopher and theologian.
40. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
41. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
42. State in northeastern India.
43. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
45. A genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see peanut).
47. (British) Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms.
49. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
50. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
54. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
57. The doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. Greek geometer (3rd century BC).
64. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
65. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
67. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
69. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
71. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
72. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
75. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
77. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
79. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
81. A person forced to flee from home or country.
82. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.

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