Crossword Puzzle Number 4685 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
5. (Mexico) A flour tortilla folded around a filling.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
15. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
16. (trademark) A piece of soft absorbent paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief.
17. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
18. To an ample degree or in an ample manner.
19. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
21. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
24. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
26. The official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body.
28. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
32. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
35. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
48. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
52. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
53. A person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there.
54. A special situation.
55. Full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds.
57. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
59. By chance.
61. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
62. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
65. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
68. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
71. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
73. Type genus of the Polygalaceae.
76. Leave voluntarily.
78. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
79. Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.
82. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
83. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
84. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
85. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.

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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part.
3. As from a country.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
5. A radioactive transuranic element.
6. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
7. Echo repeatedly, echo again and again.
8. Shape anew or differently.
9. Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement.
10. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
11. An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos.
12. A large fleet.
13. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
14. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
20. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. A state in midwestern United States.
25. Informal terms for a mother.
27. The act of scanning.
29. A native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language).
33. A magician or sorcerer of ancient times.
34. Flat crusty-bottomed onion roll.
36. Lower in esteem.
38. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
42. An honorary arts degree.
44. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
45. The capital of Croatia.
47. Type genus of the Apidae.
49. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
50. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
51. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
56. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
58. 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.
60. A chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks.
63. Relating to or accompanying birth.
64. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
66. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
67. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
72. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
74. Noisy talk.
75. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
77. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
80. An associate degree in nursing.
81. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.

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