Crossword Puzzle Number 1381 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
4. Relating to or involving the stomach.
11. Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
15. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
16. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
17. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
18. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
20. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
21. A female ogre.
23. Large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste.
25. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. An island of central Hawaii.
28. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
30. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
32. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
34. Covering that are used on a bed.
38. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
39. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
42. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
43. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
50. Any admirable quality or attribute.
52. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
53. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
54. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
55. The girl friend of a gangster.
56. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
59. A Greek island west of Greece.
62. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
67. The cry made by sheep.
68. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
72. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
73. Express or utter with a hiss.
75. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
77. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
78. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
79. Bears and extinct related forms.
80. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
81. A quantity of no importance.
82. Have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
2. God of love and erotic desire.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
4. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
5. A state in northwestern North America.
6. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
7. Considerate and solicitous care.
8. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
9. Being nine more than forty.
10. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
11. (formal) A person who announces important news.
12. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
13. A city in Tuscany.
14. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
19. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
22. A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area.
24. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
26. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
29. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
31. The basic unit of money in Spain.
33. A genus of Ploceidae.
35. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
36. Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy.
37. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
40. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
41. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
44. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
46. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
48. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
49. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
51. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
57. (baseball) A list of batters in the order in which they will bat.
58. Spider monkeys.
60. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
61. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
63. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
64. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
69. Someone new to a field or activity.
70. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
71. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
74. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
76. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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