Crossword Puzzle Number 1105 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
4. Treated with excessive indulgence.
12. Informal terms for a mother.
15. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
16. A person who directs and manages an organization.
17. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
18. A human limb.
19. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
20. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
25. A genus of Carangidae.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. A master's degree in business.
31. Having the slant of a bevel.
33. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
35. An industrial city is southeastern Austria.
39. Pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation.
43. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by heating limestone.
46. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
47. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
49. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
52. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
54. (informal) Exceptionally good.
55. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
56. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
58. In a trite manner.
60. True firs.
62. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
63. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
66. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
68. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
76. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
77. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
78. Regional and archaic.
80. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
81. Used of a single unit or thing.
82. An insignificant place.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. Jordan's port.
2. Wild and menacing.
3. Young sheep.
4. A person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war.
5. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
6. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
7. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
8. A city in western Germany.
9. Align anew or better.
10. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
11. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
12. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
13. A naturally occuring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils.
14. The location of something surrounded by other things.
21. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
23. Affect with wonder.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Great coolness and composure under strain.
32. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
34. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
36. A genus of Laridae.
37. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
38. The sixth month of the civil year.
40. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
41. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
42. Morally degraded.
44. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
45. A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809).
48. Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit.
50. Someone who makes and sells hats.
51. An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374).
53. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
57. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
59. A state in midwestern United States.
61. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
64. Very dark black.
65. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
67. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
69. Great in vertical dimension.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
74. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
75. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
79. A Mid-Atlantic state.

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