Crossword Puzzle Number 6183 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
4. Having a strong distinctive fragrance.
12. The residue that remains when something is burned.
15. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
16. French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873).
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935).
20. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. Of or relating to the intima.
24. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
25. Make less active or intense.
27. Compare critically.
28. A Protestant layman who assists the minister.
30. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
31. Take in solid food.
32. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
35. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. Austrian composer (1860-1911).
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. Type genus of the Majidae.
48. (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree.
49. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
51. Water soaked soil.
52. A resource.
53. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
54. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
56. An informal term for a father.
57. Lower in esteem.
60. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
61. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
68. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
70. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
74. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
77. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
78. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
82. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
83. The basic unit of money in Albania.
84. God of wisdom or prophesy.
85. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.

DOWN

1. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
2. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
3. A close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace.
4. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
5. Having branches.
6. A Russian river.
7. Informal terms for a mother.
8. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
9. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
10. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
11. Flavored with sour orange peel.
12. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
13. Singing jazz.
14. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
19. The forest trees growing in a country or region.
23. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
26. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
29. A large fleet.
33. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
34. Of or relating to a creed.
36. A particular environment or walk of life.
38. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
39. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
41. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
47. The state capital of Alaska.
50. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
55. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
64. A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence.
66. Not widely known.
67. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
69. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
71. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
72. A master's degree in library science.
73. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
75. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
76. A local computer network for communication between computers.
79. 1/10 gram.
80. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
81. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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