Crossword Puzzle Number 3906 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
4. (British informal) Stark naked.
12. Not reflecting light.
15. A pass between mountain peaks.
16. Belonging to or inherited from one's father.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A short moral story (often with animal characters).
20. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
21. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
24. An atom having a valence of one.
26. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
28. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
29. Regional and archaic.
31. (combining form) Former.
32. The act of catching an object with the hands.
36. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
39. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
40. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
41. Chinese tea leaves that have been semi-fermented before being dried.
45. The compass point that is midway between north and northwest.
46. Resembling a box in rectangularity.
49. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
51. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
52. Cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful.
53. Large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods.
54. Of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living.
57. Fail to do something.
59. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
60. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
61. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
63. Witnessed at first hand.
65. A person of exceptional importance and reputation.
69. Leafless East Indian vine.
72. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
73. (Sumerian) Sun god.
74. A city of central China.
75. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
80. Be seated.
81. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
82. Proboscis worms.
83. The compass point midway between northeast and east.

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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A blind god.
3. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
5. The sound made by a gentle blow.
6. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
7. Load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully".
8. The basic unit of money in Norway.
9. Carry out or participate in an activity.
10. Antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil).
11. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
22. White goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. Derive or receive pleasure from.
27. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. A feeling of favorable regard.
33. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
34. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
35. A member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma.
37. A populous province in northeastern China.
38. Speaking a Slavic language.
42. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
43. Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
44. Tastelessly showy.
47. Of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants.
48. Inherent ability.
50. An ax used to slaughter cattle.
55. (ecology) The process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat.
56. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. Sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).
64. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
66. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
67. A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
68. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
70. Most important element.
71. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
76. An associate degree in nursing.
77. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
78. 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.
79. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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