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ACROSS
1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. A photographic image produced on a radio-sensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays).
12. Not reflecting light.
15. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
16. A workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
20. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
21. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
22. French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955).
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
27. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
29. The rattling noise produced when snoring.
31. (music) A short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria.
35. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
37. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
38. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
40. The unit of frequency.
41. Free from risk or danger.
43. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
45. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
48. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
50. Of or in or relating to the nose.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
56. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
57. English essayist (1775-1834).
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (12851349).
69. A landlord who is a woman.
75. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
76. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
78. A slender double-reed instrument.
79. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
80. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
82. A Loloish language.
83. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
84. Chief port of Benin on the Bight of Benin.
85. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
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1. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
2. Award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999).
3. A store or supply (especially of food or clothing or arms).
4. One of a series of rounded teeth formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth etc.).
5. Shrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers.
6. Being nine more than forty.
7. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
8. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
9. Located in or toward the back or rear.
10. A large fleet.
11. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. A man who is engaged to be married.
23. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
25. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
28. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
33. Spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth.
34. Relating to bone or to the skeleton.
36. A genus of Ploceidae.
39. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
42. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
44. An unforeseen obstacle.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
49. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture.
55. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
59. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
60. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
62. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
64. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
66. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
67. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
68. Not open.
70. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
71. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
72. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
73. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
74. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
77. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
81. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.