Crossword Puzzle Number 1493 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
4. An ancient branch of the Semitic languages.
12. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers.
17. An affirmative.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. A membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord.
20. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
22. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
24. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
26. A master's degree in education.
28. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
30. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
33. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
37. Sedative-hypnotic drug (trade name Quaalude) that is a drug of abuse.
40. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
41. A cruel and brutal fellow.
42. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. A simple protein containing mainly basic amino acids.
46. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. A light touch or stroke.
49. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
50. A state in New England.
52. Dwell (archaic).
55. Not final or absolute.
56. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
60. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
61. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
62. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
64. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. The complete duration of something.
71. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
75. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
78. Affect with wonder.
79. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
80. Of or relating to the former British colony of Georgia.
82. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
83. The habitation of wild animals.
84. Bulldog ants.
85. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.

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1. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
2. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
3. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
4. A unit of pressure.
5. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
6. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
7. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
8. The brightest star in Cygnus.
9. Being nine more than fifty.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. Consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl.
12. Shift from one side of the ship to the other.
13. Perceive sound.
14. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
21. Relating to the Urdu language.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
27. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
29. Constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches.
31. Any of several small auks of north Pacific coasts.
32. The lowest brass wind instrument.
34. Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya.
35. Convert into ions.
36. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs.
48. More aromatic and acidic than oranges.
51. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
54. Late time of life.
57. A port city in southwestern Iran.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. Being ten more than eighty.
63. British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964).
65. Ludicrously odd.
66. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
70. A city in the European part of Russia.
72. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
73. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
74. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
76. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
77. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
81. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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