Crossword Puzzle Number 4340 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. Take by legal authority.
11. A milkshake made with malt powder.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. A resident of a coastal area.
17. Type genus of the Amiidae.
18. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
20. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
21. The regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale.
23. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
25. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
29. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
30. A portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking.
32. 1 species.
36. A Russian river.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Not in good physical or mental health.
40. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
42. Type genus of the Anatidae.
46. Dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin.
48. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
50. A written proposal or reminder.
51. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
52. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
53. A very troublesome child.
54. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
56. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
58. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
61. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
65. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
66. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
68. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
70. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
71. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
73. Something proposed (such as a plan or assumption).
78. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
79. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
80. (chemistry) Relating to or containing an alkali.
81. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
82. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
83. A mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf.
84. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.

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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. 100 sene equal 1 tala.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. Being nine more than ninety.
5. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
6. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
7. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
8. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
9. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
10. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
11. The capital of Lesotho.
12. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
13. Similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region.
14. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
19. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
22. Russian Soviet leader.
24. A collection of things wrapped or boxed together.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.
31. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
33. A party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity.
34. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
35. Give out.
38. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
41. Squash bugs.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. An appreciable consequence (especially a lessening).
45. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
47. To fix or set securely or deeply.
49. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
55. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
57. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
59. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
60. Common black European thrush.
62. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
63. The part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum.
64. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
67. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
69. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
72. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
74. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
75. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
76. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
77. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.

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