Crossword Puzzle Number 6780 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. United States filmmaker (born in 1934).
12. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
15. Chief port of Yemen.
16. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
17. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
20. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
22. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
24. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
25. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
30. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
31. An honorary degree in science.
33. The cry made by sheep.
34. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
35. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
39. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. Physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split.
42. A small drink of liquor.
43. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
45. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
48. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
49. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
53. One of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. (British abbreviation) "he accepted it on appro".
56. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
57. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. A person of unquestioning obedience.
61. An associate degree in nursing.
62. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
65. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
67. Having removed clothing.
69. Knock down with force.
72. An informal term for a father.
73. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
76. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
77. A place where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
80. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
81. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
82. Declaim in an elocutionary manner.
83. A light touch or stroke.
84. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
85. Concentrated on or clustered around a central point or purpose.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
5. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
6. Using speech rather than writing.
7. Your general store of remembered information.
8. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
9. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
10. Being one more than one hundred.
11. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
12. Being four more than sixty.
13. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
14. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Tree of the Amazon valley yielding a light brittle timber locally regarded as resistant to insect attack.
28. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.
29. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
32. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
36. Squash bugs.
37. A nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries).
38. A large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm.
40. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
47. A motley assortment of things.
50. A dicotyledonous genus of the family Labiatae.
51. Relating to the Urdu language.
52. A heavy rain.
58. A licensed medical practitioner.
60. A card game for 2 players.
63. Consisting of or having the character of loam.
64. A gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier.
66. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
68. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
70. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
71. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
74. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
75. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
78. A proportion multiplied by 100.
79. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.

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