Crossword Puzzle Number 3987 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An honorary degree in science.
4. Semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz.
11. A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis.
15. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
16. The acetylated derivative of salicylic acid.
17. Report or maintain.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property.
21. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
23. The basic unit of money in Bhutan.
25. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
27. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
28. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly.
31. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
33. In operation or operational.
36. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
37. A small wooded hollow.
38. An expression of greeting.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
43. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
45. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
46. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
47. The eleventh month of the civil year.
49. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
50. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
53. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. Being one more than ten.
58. Found along western Atlantic coast.
60. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
62. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
66. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
69. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display.
71. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
73. Having been introduced to something new.
77. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
78. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
79. A skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching.
80. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
81. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
82. Serving to bring to mind.
83. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.

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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
3. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
4. A warning against certain acts.
5. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
6. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
7. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
8. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
9. Large Indian antelope.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. A cloth having a crisscross design.
12. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
13. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
14. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
20. Of or resembling algae.
22. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
24. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
26. Great coolness and composure under strain.
29. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
30. Great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor.
32. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
34. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
35. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
39. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
48. Excluded from use or mention.
51. Divisible by two.
52. Someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments.
54. Situated away from the axis of any body or part.
57. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. Electric underground railway.
63. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
64. United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968).
65. Make less active or intense.
67. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
68. An elaborate song for solo voice.
70. A setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows.
74. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
75. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
76. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.

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