Crossword Puzzle Number 7839 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. Like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity.
12. A human limb.
15. How long something has existed.
16. Having divergent strabismus.
17. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
18. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
19. A large fleet.
20. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
22. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
24. Hoop that covers a wheel.
26. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
32. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
34. Chief god.
35. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.
38. True firs.
42. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
43. Civet of Madagascar.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
48. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
49. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. A city of central China.
53. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
54. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
58. Glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo).
60. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
62. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
63. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
64. In the Roman calendar.
67. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
71. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
72. The back side of the neck.
74. Perceive sound.
75. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
77. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
79. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
82. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
83. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
84. Land and buildings together considered as a place of business.
85. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.

DOWN

1. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
2. God of fire.
3. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
4. (informal) A bunch.
5. United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937).
6. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
7. Exultantly proud and joyful.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. The eighth month of the civil year.
10. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
11. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
12. Having or as if having limbs (especially limbs of a specified kind).
13. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
14. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
21. Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
23. Greek mythology.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A pustule in an eruptive disease.
31. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
33. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
36. Order by virtue of superior authority.
37. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
39. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
40. Adroitness in using the hands.
41. Large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste.
44. Using speech rather than writing.
45. A saying that widely accepted on its own merits.
47. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
51. A state in midwestern United States.
52. Goat grass.
55. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
57. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
59. Draw in by breathing.
61. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
65. A republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast.
66. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
68. The property of being large in mass.
69. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
70. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
73. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
76. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
78. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
80. A long-playing phonograph record.
81. Being one more than one.

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