Crossword Puzzle Number 1671 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A state of agitated irritation.
5. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
12. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
15. (British) A recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports.
16. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
17. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
18. Sour or bitter in taste.
20. (architecture) Oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. United States psychologist noted for his work in child development (1880-1961).
24. Appear again.
27. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
29. Of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures.
30. English playwright (1929-1994).
33. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
34. Fallow deer.
37. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
38. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
45. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
48. A telegram sent abroad.
50. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
52. A Hindu prince or king in India.
54. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
55. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
58. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
59. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
61. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
64. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
65. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
67. An elaborate party (often outdoors).
71. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
75. An analgesic for mild pain.
76. Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
80. From 405 million to 425 million years ago.
82. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
83. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
84. A great raja.
85. A light touch or stroke.

DOWN

1. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
2. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
3. In the Roman calendar.
4. A matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight.
5. Before noon.
6. Having leadership guidance.
7. Gone by.
8. Scottish dramatist and novelist.
9. (psychology) Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal.
10. Covered with paving material.
11. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
12. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
13. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
14. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
19. A promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books).
23. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
25. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
26. A genus of Ploceidae.
28. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
31. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
32. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
35. Evil or harmful in nature or influence.
36. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
39. A genus of Mustelidae.
41. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
44. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
46. An unofficial association of people or groups.
47. Slightly open.
49. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
51. The doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable.
53. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
56. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
57. A quantity of no importance.
60. Tropical African herbs.
62. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
63. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
66. An informal term for a father.
68. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
69. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
70. The capital of Western Samoa.
72. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
73. God of love and erotic desire.
74. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
77. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
81. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.

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