Crossword Puzzle Number 6039 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
4. Made by hand or a hand process.
12. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
16. A person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point.
17. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Sturdy annual of Peru.
20. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
21. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
23. An unpleasant or disastrous destiny.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
27. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
30. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
34. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
35. Southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. 16 ounces.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
46. Treated with oil.
48. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
49. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
50. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
51. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
53. Capable of relieving pain.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC.
61. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
62. 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.
64. A radioactive transuranic element.
65. Any plant of the genus Erica.
69. Liable to sin.
73. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
74. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
78. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
81. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
82. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
83. A device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders.
84. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.

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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
3. A city in northeastern Ukraine.
4. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
5. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
6. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
7. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
8. Tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections.
9. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
10. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
14. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
22. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
24. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
28. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
29. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
31. In a gay manner.
32. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
33. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
39. A particular environment or walk of life.
40. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
54. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
55. (Greek mythology) Wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
57. Small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches.
59. A Russian river.
60. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
63. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
66. (prefix) Between or among or in the midst of.
67. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
68. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
70. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
71. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
72. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
76. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
77. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
79. A public promotion of some product or service.
80. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.

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