Crossword Puzzle Number 3870 (Medium Grid)

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1. A cgs unit of work or energy.
4. The property of favoring one eye over the other (as in taking aim).
12. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
15. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
16. A shorter form of rondeau.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
19. A very short time (as the time it takes to blink once).
20. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
21. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. A Russian river.
24. (chemistry) Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures.
26. Not only so, but.
28. Habitual mode of behavior.
30. Jordan's port.
32. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
36. The academic world.
40. In an unnatural eery manner.
41. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
43. God of the sky.
44. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
48. Having only superficial plausibility.
49. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
50. God of justice.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
59. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
62. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
64. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
65. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
67. (often followed by `with' or used in combination) Troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers.
71. An island republic on Nauru Island.
73. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
76. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
78. Italian violinist (1782-1840).
81. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
82. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
83. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
84. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.

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1. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
2. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
3. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
4. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
5. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
6. Half the width of an em.
7. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
8. Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979).
9. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
10. Keep away from others.
11. Made steady or constant.
12. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
23. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
25. With eyes full of tears.
27. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist.
34. A liquid solution that results from elution.
35. Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence.
37. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
38. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
39. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
42. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A radioactive transuranic element.
47. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
51. Paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office).
52. An unforeseen obstacle.
54. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
55. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
56. 16 ounces.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
60. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
61. German arms manufacturer and son of Friedrich Krupp.
63. A British doctorate.
66. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
68. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
69. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
70. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
72. Fiddler crabs.
74. The month following February and preceding April.
75. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
80. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.

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