CROSSWORD 1403

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1. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. 5. (pathology) Tending to become more severe or wider in scope. 11. At or constituting a border or edge. 15. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes. 16. The music of Chopin. 17. Praise, glorify, or honor. 18. The part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. 20. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic. 21. A public promotion of some product or service. 22. United States writer who created the Japanese detective Mr. Moto and wrote other novels as well (1893-1960). 26. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds. 30. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element. 32. An official language of the Republic of South Africa. 33. Type genus of the Gavialidae. 36. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands. 38. 16 ounces. 40. Cast again, in a different role. 41. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid. 43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 46. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys. 47. A large number or amount. 49. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion. 53. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984). 54. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits. 56. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. 59. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions. 61. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper. 62. A person active in party politics. 65. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code. 66. The sixth month of the civil year. 68. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom. 70. A German city near Leipzig. 73. Fallow deer. 76. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 77. A state in southeastern United States. 78. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants. 79. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent. 82. Clean or orderly. 83. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity. 84. A large fleet. 85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare. 2. The capital and chief port of Qatar. 3. Sour or bitter in taste. 4. A port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman. 5. A radioactive element of the actinide series. 6. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries. 7. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907). 8. A poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis. 9. Being one more than six. 10. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face. 11. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy. 12. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. 13. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material. 14. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants. 19. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube. 23. Jordan's port. 24. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something. 25. Offering fun and gaiety. 27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey). 28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 29. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel. 31. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry. 34. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean. 35. A genus of Sterninae. 37. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture. 39. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp. 42. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology. 44. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically). 45. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk. 48. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae. 50. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant. 51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens. 52. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers. 55. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins. 57. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity. 58. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb. 60. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance. 63. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland. 64. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe. 67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River. 69. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1. 71. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another. 72. Harsh or corrosive in tone. 74. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion. 75. (prefix) In front of or before in space. 80. The syllable naming the fourth (sub-dominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization. 81. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.