Crossword Puzzle Number 7586 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A kind of malacostracan crustacean.
12. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
15. Being one more than two.
16. One of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
20. Father of the storm gods Marut.
21. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
22. A branch of the Tai languages.
23. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
31. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. A white trivalent metallic element.
35. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
36. Extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head.
37. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
39. Half the width of an em.
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
43. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. Any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii).
52. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
53. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
54. Avoiding detection by moving carefully.
55. An Asian river.
58. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
61. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
62. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
66. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
67. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
70. Work table of a machine tool.
72. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
75. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
76. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
79. The products of human creativity.
80. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
81. (botany) Of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization.
82. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
83. A local computer network for communication between computers.
84. Irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn.
85. Inquire about.

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1. A young woman.
2. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
3. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
4. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
5. (anatomy) Being in or directed toward the midline or mesial plane of the body.
6. A heavy precious metallic element.
7. Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions.
8. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
11. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. 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.
14. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
19. Jordan's port.
25. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
28. A house of worship (especially one for sailors).
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
34. A visual display of information.
38. 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.
41. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
42. Type genus of the Anatidae.
45. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
46. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957).
47. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
48. The cry made by sheep.
50. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
51. Wearing footgear.
56. A quantity of no importance.
57. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.
59. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
60. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
63. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
64. A synthetic silklike fabric.
65. Of or like a cecum.
68. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
69. A dyed fabric.
71. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
73. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
74. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
77. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
78. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.

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