ACROSS
1. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
11. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
15. Tag the base runner to get him out.
16. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
17. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
18. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
21. Mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
27. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
28. A metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables.
29. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
31. A local computer network for communication between computers.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A support or foundation.
41. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
43. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
47. Toward the mouth or oral region.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
52. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
54. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
60. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
61. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
64. A town in central Belgium.
65. Clothing for the head.
67. An indication of approved or superior status.
71. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
72. Cause to undergo mutation.
75. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
76. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
77. A dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten).
79. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
80. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
81. A durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color.
82. A slight amount or degree of difference.
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1. Order by virtue of superior authority.
2. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
3. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
5. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease.
6. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
7. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. God of wealth and love.
10. A large fleet.
11. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
12. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
13. An association of criminals.
14. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
19. Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935).
22. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
25. The sacred city of Lamaism.
26. How long something has existed.
30. A decree that prohibits something.
33. United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931).
34. The capital of Bahrain.
36. A very light brown.
37. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
38. Jordan's port.
39. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Type genus of the family Palaemonidae.
50. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
53. 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.
55. From 13 million to 25 million years ago.
56. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.
57. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
58. A cloth having a crisscross design.
59. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
62. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
63. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
66. 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.
68. The handle of a weapon or tool.
69. English essayist (1775-1834).
70. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
73. Inquire about.
74. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
78. Half the width of an em.
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