Crossword Puzzle Number 2053 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. A recognition of meritorious service.
12. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
15. A cgs unit of work or energy.
16. Outer membrane covering an axon.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. Soft blue-gray mineral.
20. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
21. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
22. Pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point.
24. A state of disorder involving group violence.
26. Marked with stria or striations.
27. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
29. The 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
32. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
35. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
37. Suggestive of the supernatural.
39. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
41. Medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark.
44. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
46. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
47. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
48. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of the country of Romania or its people or languages.
51. Used of a single unit or thing.
52. Not regulated or sanctioned by law.
55. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
62. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
69. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
72. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
74. A desert in central Asia.
75. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
77. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
78. Largest known toad species.
79. A radical labor movement in the United States founded in nd dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism.
80. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.

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1. Kindly endorsement and guidance.
2. A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence.
3. A viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person.
4. Wildly disordered.
5. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
6. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
7. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
8. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
9. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
10. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
11. Mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees.
12. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
13. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. Of writing or narration.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. The capital and largest city of Iran.
30. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
31. An Asian river.
33. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
34. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
36. A fixed look with eyes open wide v 1.
38. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
40. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
42. A final climactic stage.
43. Informal terms for a mother.
45. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
53. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
54. 1 species.
56. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
58. The cry made by sheep.
60. Highly excited.
61. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
63. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
64. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
66. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
67. Engage or hire for work.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. Informal terms for the mouth.
71. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
73. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
76. Being one more than one.

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