Crossword Puzzle Number 4187 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An enclosed space.
4. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
11. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
16. Situated away from the axis of any body or part.
17. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
18. An associate degree in applied science.
19. Someone in love with themselves.
20. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
21. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
23. 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.
24. (of a substance) Capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water).
26. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
28. 16 ounces.
29. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
30. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
32. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
34. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
38. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
43. A Pacific island north of Australia.
44. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
48. How long something has existed.
50. Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent.
52. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
56. Small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America.
59. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
60. A person who makes use of a thing.
63. The income arising from land or other property.
65. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
67. The time of life between 20 and 30.
72. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
74. Any high mountain.
75. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
76. True cuttlefishes.
78. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
79. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.

DOWN

1. A sharp blow.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
4. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
7. Distinguish oneself.
8. Being two more than fifty.
9. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
10. Of or being the lowest female voice.
11. Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central and South America and West Indies.
12. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
13. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
14. An established ceremony prescribed by a religion.
22. (anatomy) Any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
25. A Russian river.
27. The sign language used in the United States.
31. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
33. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
35. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
36. Sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye).
37. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.
39. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
46. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
47. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
49. Testacean rhizopods.
51. Genus of tropical American timber trees.
53. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century).
54. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
55. Congenital absence of the uterus.
57. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
58. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
61. A river in eastern France.
62. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
68. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
69. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
70. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
71. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
73. A loud harsh or strident noise.
77. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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