Crossword Puzzle Number 2043 (Medium Grid)

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1. Characteristic of a mob.
12. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles.
17. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
18. One of a family of granular intrusive rocks.
20. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
21. A pass between mountain peaks.
22. The content of cognition.
23. A son who has the same first name as his father.
25. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
27. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
31. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
34. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
36. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
38. Alcoholic drink from fermented cider (`cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usage for the fermented beverage).
42. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
44. Escape, either physically or mentally.
45. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia.
48. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
49. A small island.
50. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
53. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
55. English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859).
59. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
60. A small cake leavened with yeast.
64. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
73. An affirmative.
74. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
78. Genus of tropical American timber trees.
79. A light touch or stroke.

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1. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
2. Toward the mouth or oral region.
3. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
4. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
5. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
8. A large and hurried swallow.
9. An electrically charged particle.
10. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
11. A particular environment or surrounding influence.
12. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
13. Fruit of the oak tree.
14. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
19. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
26. A track or mark left by something that has passed.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
30. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
32. Traveling on horseback.
33. Of or like a cecum.
35. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
37. Jordan's port.
39. Of or relating to the dura mater.
40. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
41. Pay back.
43. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
46. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
47. A region of northern France on the English Channel.
51. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
52. Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke.
54. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
56. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
57. Lower in esteem.
58. A small unit serving as the nucleus of a larger political movement.
61. Advanced in years.
62. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
63. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
65. Having been read.
66. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
67. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
69. The residue that remains when something is burned.
70. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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