Crossword Puzzle Number 6924 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An artificial source of visible illumination.
5. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
11. A thrusting blow with a knife.
15. American novelist (1909-1955).
16. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
17. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
18. A genus of Ploceidae.
20. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
21. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
22. (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.
23. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
24. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
26. An acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance.
28. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
30. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
35. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
38. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
42. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. Made uninhabitable.
48. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
50. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
52. Having removed clothing.
53. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
54. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
56. A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure.
57. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
61. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
63. A port in southwestern Scotland.
64. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
66. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
68. The capital and largest city of Belgium.
71. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
75. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
76. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another.
79. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
80. A three-year law degree.
81. Be earlier in time.
84. The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros.
85. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
86. A great raja.
87. The cry made by sheep.

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1. Lap at the front of a coat.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A city in Indonesia.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
7. A loud resonant repeating noise.
8. Follower of Rastafarianism.
9. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
10. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
11. Lean end of the neck.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
13. God of fire.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. On or toward the lee.
25. A light touch or stroke.
27. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Vela.
33. Marked by deception.
34. Steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs.
36. Jordan's port.
37. Used by northerners of Confederate soldiers.
39. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
40. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
41. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
46. The capital and largest city of Zambia.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
49. Pass by, as of time.
51. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
55. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
58. United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935).
59. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
60. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
62. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
65. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
67. Tag the base runner to get him out.
69. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
70. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
72. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
73. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
74. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
77. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
78. An affirmative.
82. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
83. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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