Crossword Puzzle Number 3988 (Medium Grid)

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1. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
4. A group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea.
12. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
15. Towards the side away from the wind.
16. In a joyous manner.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
20. Having or employing wavelengths longer than light but shorter than radio waves.
22. The sixth month of the civil year.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. Genus of herbs of southern United States.
26. A flexible container with a single opening.
28. Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction.
30. After noon.
32. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
33. An acronym for Emissions of Light and Very low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources.
34. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
37. Relating to or near the radius.
40. Being two more than ninety.
42. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
43. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. A cart that is drawn by an ox.
49. Make believe.
53. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
54. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
55. A Mid-Atlantic state.
56. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
58. Gnu goats.
61. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
63. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
64. Located on a side.
65. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
68. (botany) Having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side.
70. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
74. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
77. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
81. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
82. The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall.
83. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.

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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. Having been read.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A master's degree in business.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant.
7. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
8. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. (CENTRal EXchange) A kind of telephone exchange.
10. In the open air.
11. An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean.
12. Characterized by variety.
13. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
14. A quantity of no importance.
19. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
21. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
24. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
27. Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745).
29. Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range.
31. The capital of Lesotho.
35. In a foreign country.
36. The courage to carry on.
38. Not still wet.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
41. Ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.
46. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
50. A small growth of trees without underbrush.
51. A Welsh terrier first bred in Sealyham (Wales).
52. Strengthen or make more firm.
57. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
59. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
60. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
62. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
66. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
67. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
69. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
71. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
72. United States baseball player (born 1925).
73. Type genus of the Anatidae.
75. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. Being one more than one.

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