Crossword Puzzle Number 1226 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A fastener for a door or lid.
5. Having six units or components.
12. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
15. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. Small genus of shrubs and small trees of New Zealand.
17. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
18. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
19. Advanced in years.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
22. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
24. A British doctorate.
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
35. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
40. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
42. Hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists.
45. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
46. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
47. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
49. A genus of Platalea.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
54. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
55. Type genus of the Anatidae.
58. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
59. The second largest city in Tunisia.
62. African mahogany trees.
68. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
72. Not wide.
74. Remote and separate physically or socially.
76. A city in the European part of Russia.
77. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
78. Put into a proper or systematic order.
80. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
81. A city in Tuscany.
82. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
83. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

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1. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
4. Affectedly dainty or refined.
5. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
6. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
7. A Bantu language closely related to Zulu.
8. Any of a group of hard crystalline minerals that consist of aluminum silicates of potassium or sodium or calcium or barium.
9. A severe or trying experience.
10. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
11. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
14. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
23. The eleventh month of the civil year.
25. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
27. Not only so, but.
28. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
33. Hairlike projection from the surface of a cell.
34. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
36. Of time long past.
37. Jordan's port.
38. Of southern Europe.
39. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
41. Physically and mentally fatigued.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
52. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
56. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
57. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
61. Either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a fox-like head.
63. A Loloish language.
64. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
65. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
66. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
67. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
69. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
70. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
71. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
73. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
75. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
79. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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