No: 17264 Friday, June 23, 2017

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FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2017

ACROSS

1. A tight-fitting headdress.

4. Not having a coating.

12. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.

15. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospi-

tals and clinics and physicians.

16. Lacking pathways.

17. Characteristic of a mob.

18. Open to or abounding in fresh air.

20. A person who participates in a meeting.

21. A slender double-reed instrument.

22. A city in east central Texas.

23. State in northeastern India.

25. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

26. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.

28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

31. A person who makes or repairs shoes.

36. Placed crosswise.

39. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.

42. A Nilotic language.

43. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their

broad wings and strong soaring flight.

45. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.

47. By bad luck.

49. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.

50. The cry made by sheep.

51. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liq-

uid element belonging to the halogens.

52. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds

within a fleshy wall or pericarp.

56. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.

57. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.

59. 10 hao equal 1 dong.

60. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.

62. South African term for `boss'.

66. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.

70. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.

74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

75. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.

CROSSWORD 1644

78. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.

79. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power

plants.

80. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).

81. On or toward the lee.

82. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

83. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of

the Missouri river.

84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.

2. Type genus of the Amiidae.

3. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.

4. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.

5. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.

6. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).

7. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.

8. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.

9. Be teeming, be abuzz.

10. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under stan-

dardized conditions.

11. An honorary degree in science.

12. Web spinners.

13. Articles of commerce.

14. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.

19. A cruel and brutal fellow.

24. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.

27. Other than what is under consideration or implied.

29. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.

30. 1 species.

32. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.

33. A decorative pin worn by women.

34. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the

Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.

35. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

37. Being five more than one hundred fifty.

38. A unit of length of thread or yarn.

40. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.

41. Very slow in tempo and broad in manner n.

44. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central

nervous system.

46. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.

48. An ordered reference standard.

53. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of

Louisiana and Texas.

54. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one mar-

ket for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price dif-

ferential).

55. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.

58. Having a squat and fleshy build.

61. Alcoholic drink from fermented cider (`cider' and `cyder' are European

(especially British) usage for the fermented beverage).

63. Jordan's port.

64. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.

65. The capital and largest city of Yemen.

67. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans

guaranteed by member governments.

68. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.

69. The basic unit of money in Ghana.

71. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.

72. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy

for the sale of petroleum.

73. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the

Titans in ancient mythology.

76. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.

77. The month following February and preceding April.

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