Crossword Puzzle Number 6892 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
4. Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928).
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. An electrically charged particle.
16. Small free-swimming tunicates.
17. The month following February and preceding April.
18. Having the back and shoulders rounded.
20. A small piece of cloth.
22. Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
28. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
30. A boy or man.
31. A person forced to flee from home or country.
32. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
36. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
40. A person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or Coast Guard.
41. City in southwestern South Korea.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
46. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
47. Coarse edible red seaweed.
50. Jordan's port.
52. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
53. A port city in southwestern Iran.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. The place where some action occurs.
61. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
66. Humorously vulgar.
69. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
71. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
72. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
73. Remote and separate physically or socially.
75. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
76. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. A genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis.
79. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
80. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
81. Clothed or adorned with finery.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A small tuft or lock.
2. A wine bottle made of leather.
3. A disrespectful laugh.
4. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
5. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
6. Relating to the Urdu language.
7. A state in the western United States.
8. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
9. Made afraid.
10. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
11. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
19. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
21. Type genus of the Gadidae.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. South American cavy.
29. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
33. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
34. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
35. Cause to lose one's nerve.
37. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
38. A clay pipe with a short stem.
39. Young of domestic cattle.
42. A state of southwestern India.
44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
48. Resembling an umbel in form.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. (botany) Especially of leaves.
54. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
56. A night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep.
57. Go on board.
60. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
62. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
63. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
67. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
68. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
74. A slight amount or degree of difference.
78. Being one hundred more than three hundred.

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