Crossword Puzzle Number 1279 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Waterproofed canvas.
5. Relating to or characterized by spasm.
12. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. The fare charged for traveling by airplane.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
19. Harmed or injured or spoiled.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
21. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
23. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
24. Skin disorder characterized by patchy bluish discolorations on the skin.
26. An honorary arts degree.
29. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. Fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole).
37. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
40. Toward the mouth or oral region.
41. A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century.
42. 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.
44. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
45. By bad luck.
47. The basic unit of money in Albania.
48. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
51. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
52. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
53. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
55. A genus of Nymphalidae.
58. Complacently or inanely foolish.
60. A state in northwestern North America.
61. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
63. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
66. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.
70. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
73. Marked by the reception of pay.
74. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
77. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
78. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
79. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice.
81. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
82. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
83. Relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot.
84. An informal term for a father.

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1. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
2. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
3. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
4. An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc.
5. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
6. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
7. A large fleet.
8. The second largest city in Tunisia.
9. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
10. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
11. The act of ceding.
12. Being the only one.
13. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
14. A city in east central Texas.
22. Flesh of any of various freshwater fishes of the families Centrarchidae of North America or Cyprinidae of Europe.
25. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
27. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
28. (sometimes followed by `to') Causing harm or injury.
30. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
31. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
34. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
35. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
36. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
38. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
39. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
43. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
46. An honorary degree in science.
49. Administer an oil or ointment to.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
54. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
56. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
57. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
59. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
62. With rapid movements.
64. Find repugnant.
65. Having help.
67. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
68. Ceremonial elegance and splendor.
69. God of death.
71. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
72. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
75. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
76. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
80. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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