Crossword Puzzle Number 4585 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. An installment of a printed work.
12. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
15. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
16. Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells.
17. An accountant certified by the state.
18. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
20. United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961).
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. (British) The position of headmaster or headmistress.
23. A telegram sent abroad.
25. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
27. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
30. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
32. Of comparatively little physical weight or density.
36. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
41. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
42. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
45. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
47. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
48. With shoulders drooping.
50. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
52. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
53. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
54. Like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape).
56. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
57. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
60. The cry made by sheep.
61. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
62. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
66. An idle slothful person.
72. Above the surround or above the normal position.
74. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
75. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
78. Jordan's port.
79. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
80. An island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa.
82. (British) Your grandmother.
83. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
84. Any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles.
3. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
4. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
5. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing.
6. A white trivalent metallic element.
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
9. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
10. Less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
11. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
14. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
19. Person who does no work.
24. A hard copal derived from an African tree.
26. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
28. Someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice.
29. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
31. English writer (1672-1729).
33. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
34. The capital city of Vietnam.
35. A step in walking or running.
37. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
39. An informal term for a father.
43. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
44. A doctor's degree in religion.
46. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
49. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
51. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
55. A dyed fabric.
58. Overcome esp. with astonishment or disbelief.
59. A bachelor's degree in religion.
63. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. A narrow way or road.
68. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
69. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
70. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
71. A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
77. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
81. An associate degree in nursing.

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