Crossword Puzzle Number 2049 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
4. So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe.
12. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
15. In or of the month preceding the present one.
16. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
17. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
18. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
19. Express discontent.
20. Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691).
22. (informal) Exceptionally good.
24. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
26. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
27. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
28. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
31. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
33. Half the width of an em.
34. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic.
44. Soaked with moisture.
46. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
48. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
49. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
54. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
56. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
57. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
58. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
60. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
62. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
72. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
75. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
78. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
79. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
80. (Old Testament) An ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants.
82. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
83. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
84. Covered with or as if with a glossy and usually brightly colored coating.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A Greek island west of Greece.
4. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
5. Being or passing over or across the sea.
6. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
7. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
8. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
9. English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766).
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
12. Common Indian weaverbird.
13. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
14. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
21. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
23. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
25. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
30. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
32. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
35. A very short time (as the time it takes to blink once).
36. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
37. Having two axes.
40. Minor or subordinate.
41. The basic unit of money in China.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
47. An informal term for a father.
50. An associate degree in nursing.
51. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
52. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
53. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
55. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
59. Free and relaxed in manner.
61. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
64. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
66. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
68. The state of being covered with unclean things.
69. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
70. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
71. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
73. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
74. Indicating the most important performer or role.
76. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
77. A doctor's degree in theology.
81. Informal terms for a mother.

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