Crossword Puzzle Number 1263 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
4. Gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth.
11. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
15. (Irish) The sea personified.
16. A representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.
17. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
18. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
20. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
21. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
22. Hardened sugary exudation of various trees.
23. A short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material.
25. (informal) Exceptionally good.
28. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
31. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
35. Lower in esteem.
38. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
41. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
42. The seventh and last day of the week.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
46. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
48. Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.
50. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
52. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
53. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
55. A harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment.
56. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
59. Be going to.
61. An abbreviation for `hazardous material' used on warning signs.
63. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
67. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
70. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
72. A branch of the Tai languages.
73. The cry made by sheep.
74. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
78. A master's degree in business.
79. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
80. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
81. Tag the base runner to get him out.
82. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
83. A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
2. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir.
3. A particular environment or walk of life.
4. Among the largest bony fish.
5. The eleventh month of the civil year.
6. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
7. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
8. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
9. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
10. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
11. A fluid product of inflammation.
12. A primeval personification of air and breath.
13. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
14. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
19. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
24. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
26. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
27. Grow teeth.
29. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
30. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
32. (biology) Having or resembling wings.
33. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
34. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
36. English monk and scholar (672-735).
37. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
39. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
40. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
44. A radioactive transuranic element.
47. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
49. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. Resembling the beak of a bird.
54. Affect with wonder.
57. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
58. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
60. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
62. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
64. A genus of Lamnidae.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Jordan's port.
68. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
69. A telephone connection.
71. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
75. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
76. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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