Crossword Puzzle Number 2083 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. A person who fixes the boundaries of land claims.
11. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States.
17. A Loloish language.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. Operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell.
20. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
21. Singing jazz.
23. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
24. A telegram sent abroad.
25. Being nine more than ninety.
27. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
30. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
31. More than enough in size or scope or capacity.
34. One who reveals confidential information in return for money.
37. Taking place over public roads.
39. State of being husband and wife.
43. Declared but not proved.
45. Any of several toxic or carcinogenic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in herbicides.
46. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
47. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
50. Yearling heifer or bullock.
51. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
53. An artificial source of visible illumination.
55. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
56. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding.
58. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
61. An associate degree in nursing.
62. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
63. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
66. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
70. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
72. Made of or resembling lace.
73. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
75. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
77. Black tropical American cuckoo.
80. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
81. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
82. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
83. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
5. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
6. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
7. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
8. Vietnamese New Year.
9. A city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz).
10. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
11. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
12. Jordan's port.
13. Be going to.
14. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
22. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
26. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
28. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
32. Hungarian playwright (1878-1952).
33. A large and stately mansion.
35. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
36. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
38. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
40. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
41. A young woman.
42. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
44. Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962.
48. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
49. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
52. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
57. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
60. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Jordan's port.
67. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
68. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
69. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
71. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
74. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
76. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
78. Before noon.
79. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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