Crossword Puzzle Number 6091 (Medium Grid)

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1. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
4. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
11. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
15. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
16. A lack of vitality.
17. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
18. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
20. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
21. Not widely known.
22. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
24. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
26. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
29. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
31. The sixth month of the civil year.
34. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
36. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
40. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
42. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
44. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
45. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
46. A cephalosporin antibiotic (trade name Ultracef).
50. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
51. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
53. (informal) Of the highest quality.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
56. Cause to change.
58. A contorted facial expression.
60. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
61. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
66. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
69. With rapid movements.
72. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
76. Creation that is created again or anew.
78. Any plant of the genus Erica.
80. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
81. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
82. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
84. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
85. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
86. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
87. An affirmative.

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1. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
2. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
3. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
4. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
5. An associate degree in nursing.
6. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
7. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. An associate degree in applied science.
11. Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are blocked).
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. Suggestive of the supernatural.
14. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
19. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. Large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years.
30. Make attractive or lovable.
32. Australasian kingfishers.
33. An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety.
35. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
37. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
38. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
39. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.
41. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
43. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
47. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
48. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
49. The sixth day of the week.
52. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
57. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
59. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
63. A city in central Illinois on the Illinois River.
65. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
67. The young of a herring or sprat or similar fish.
68. An ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor.
70. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
71. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
73. A polite name for any woman.
74. Give over.
75. A book of the New Testament.
77. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
79. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
83. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.

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