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ACROSS
1. Indicating the most important performer or role.
5. A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama.
12. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
15. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
16. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians.
17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
18. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
19. Ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side.
20. The cry made by sheep.
21. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
23. A doctor's degree in religion.
25. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
29. Comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae.
33. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
37. Not in good physical or mental health.
38. Gull family.
40. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
41. Scar where the umbilical cord was attached.
43. City in eastern Belgium.
45. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
46. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
47. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
49. A form of address for a man.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
55. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
58. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
59. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
62. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
63. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. (Maine colloquial) Temporary summer resident in inland Maine n 1. 69.The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
72. A doctor's degree in music.
75. A warning against certain acts.
77. Deciduous shrub of North America.
79. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
80. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
81. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
83. (informal) Roused to anger.
84. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
85. Situated between the earth and the moon.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The compass point that is one point south of southwest.
2. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. Old material that is slightly reworked and used again.
5. A city in northern Nigeria.
6. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
7. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
9. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
10. Individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell.
11. Water frozen in the solid state.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. (botany) Outer tissue of bark.
24. Scottish writer of rustic verse (17701835).
26. Common black European thrush.
27. Having little physical or spiritual strength.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
30. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pinktinged fruit.
31. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
32. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
34. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
35. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
36. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
39. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
42. Correction by erasing.
44. American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799).
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. A woman of refinement.
54. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
60. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
61. Constituting or relating to a tail.
64. Remote and separate physically or socially.
66. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
68. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
70. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
71. A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. An informal term for a father.
76. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.