Crossword Puzzle Number 6606 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A resident of Alabama.
12. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. American anthropologist (1887-1948).
17. A small piece of cloth.
18. Tag the base runner to get him out.
19. Of or in or relating to the nose.
20. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
22. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
24. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
26. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
27. A draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again.
29. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
31. Not out.
33. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
36. Costing 5 dollars.
39. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
41. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
45. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
46. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
49. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
50. Marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells.
52. How long something has existed.
53. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
56. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
58. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
59. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain.
64. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
67. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
68. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
72. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
76. Set down according to a plan.
77. A small cake leavened with yeast.
79. Of or relating to a hair.
80. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
81. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
84. Not final or absolute.
85. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
86. United States physicist who invented the bubble chamber to study subatomic particles (born in 1926).
87. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.

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1. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
4. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
5. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
6. Black tropical American cuckoo.
7. Help as a benefactor.
8. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
9. A unit of length equal to 1760 yards.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
12. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
13. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
21. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
23. Having or resembling a beak.
25. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
32. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
37. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
38. A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
40. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
42. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
43. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
44. A negatively charged atom.
47. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
48. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
51. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
57. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
60. A port city in southwestern Iran.
62. Before noon.
63. A small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage.
65. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
66. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
69. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
70. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
71. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
73. English essayist (1775-1834).
74. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
75. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
78. An associate degree in applied science.
82. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
83. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.

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