Crossword Puzzle Number 1196 (Medium Grid)

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1. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
4. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
11. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
15. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
16. A motley assortment of things.
17. Rounded like an egg.
18. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
19. Being in competition.
20. An agenda of things to do.
21. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
22. Talk pompously.
24. Come into existence.
26. Before noon.
28. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
29. A Swiss house.
30. The eleventh month of the civil year.
32. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
34. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
35. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.
39. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
43. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
44. A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth.
45. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
46. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge.
49. The airforce of Great Britain.
50. Not in good physical or mental health.
51. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
54. Colored or impregnated with dye.
57. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
59. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
62. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
65. A quantity of no importance.
67. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
71. Small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark.
74. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
76. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
77. (of fabrics and paper) Grown dark in color over time.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
81. Made warm or hot.
82. City in central Iran.
83. The cry made by sheep.

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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
3. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
4. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
7. Coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States.
8. Someone who rants and raves.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. A group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea.
11. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression.
12. A means of serving.
13. Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
14. Partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow).
23. Type genus of the Rubiaceae.
25. Type genus of the family Pholadidae.
27. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
31. In a vile manner.
33. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
36. An ordered reference standard.
37. A river in Germany.
38. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
40. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
41. A genus of Indriidae.
42. Little known Kamarupan languages.
47. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
53. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
55. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
58. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
60. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. Cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable.
64. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
66. Advanced in years.
68. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
69. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
70. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
72. An associate degree in applied science.
73. A byproduct of inflammation.
75. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
78. Unknown god.
79. Half the width of an em.

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