Crossword Puzzle Number 970 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus.
12. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
15. The basic unit of money in Albania.
16. (Old Testament) An ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. God of war.
20. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. An act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done).
25. A resource.
26. Type genus of the Anatidae.
28. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
30. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
32. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
34. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
39. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
41. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
43. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
44. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
48. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. A number that is added to another number (the augend).
52. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
54. Deeply moved.
56. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
57. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. Only the silky anteater.
62. Not made with leavening.
63. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
67. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
69. A certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee.
71. A notable achievement.
72. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
75. The fifth day of the week.
76. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
78. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
79. A lace used for fastening shoes.
82. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
83. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
84. A person who eats human flesh.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
3. Jordan's port.
4. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
5. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
6. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
7. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
8. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
9. A small hard particle.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. The dull explosive noise made by an engine.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
13. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
14. A lyric poet.
22. Squash bugs.
24. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
31. In a sincere and heartfelt manner.
33. One millionth of a gram.
35. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
36. Mated sexually.
37. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
38. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
40. Cuddling and kissing.
42. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
45. God of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity.
46. An athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball).
47. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
50. 100 groschen equal 1 schilling.
53. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
55. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
60. United States prizefighter who lost his world heavyweight championship to Cassius Clay in 1964 (1932-1970).
61. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
64. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
70. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
73. Noisy talk.
74. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
77. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
80. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
81. Being one more than fifty.

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