Crossword Puzzle Number 6171 (Medium Grid)

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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
11. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
15. The seventh and last day of the week.
16. The football players who line up on the line of scrimmage.
17. A Loloish language.
18. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
19. An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals.
20. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
23. Short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants.
25. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
26. God of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children.
28. Arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
32. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
35. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
38. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
42. An island of central Hawaii.
44. A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
45. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
47. A cape at the southern tip of Norway.
48. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
50. Before noon.
51. Erect densely branched shrubby perennials of Old World tropics.
52. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
54. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
55. In or of the month preceding the present one.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. Any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers.
62. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
65. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
66. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
71. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
80. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
81. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
83. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
84. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
85. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
86. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.

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1. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
2. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
3. An advantageous purchase.
4. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
5. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
6. The basic unit of money in Peru.
7. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
8. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
9. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
10. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
11. Having much flesh (especially fat).
12. Jordan's port.
13. A human female who does housework.
14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. The twelfth month of the civil year.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
31. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
33. An azure blue semiprecious stone.
34. An elaborate party (often outdoors).
36. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
37. United States writer (1871-1900).
39. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
40. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
41. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
43. A person who is abnormally small.
46. The 2nd longest European river.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
53. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
57. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
61. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
63. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
64. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
67. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
68. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
69. A genus of Mustelidae.
70. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals.
74. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
77. An accountant certified by the state.
78. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
82. Being nine more than ninety.

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