Crossword Puzzle Number 2120 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Largest known toad species.
5. A member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon.
12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
15. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
16. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
17. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
18. In an early stage of development.
20. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
21. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
22. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
23. In operation or operational.
24. A rapid bustling commotion.
25. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. (dentistry) A filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
31. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
34. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
38. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.
42. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
43. A member of the working class (not necessarily employed).
44. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
45. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
48. The mints.
50. Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC).
51. Not eaten or used up.
52. Insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers.
53. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
54. Advanced in years.
56. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
57. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
60. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
62. A plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers.
66. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
70. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote.
71. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
74. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
75. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
76. Sell (something) again after having bought it.
78. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
79. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
80. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
81. A short personal letter.

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1. American novelist (1909-1955).
2. Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet.
3. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
8. The act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning).
9. A liquid terpene with a lemon odor.
10. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. Jordan's port.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. A large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property.
14. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
19. A cruel and brutal fellow.
26. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
28. A genus of Scolopacidae.
30. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
32. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
33. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
35. French tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
36. Relating to or being a member of an ethnic group.
37. Having vision, not blind n 1.
39. Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896).
40. Clean or orderly.
41. The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC.
46. South American cavy.
47. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
49. Creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil.
55. A member of the Caddo people of NE Texas.
58. Characterized by intense emotion.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
61. A synthetic silklike fabric.
63. The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
64. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
65. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
67. A written proposal or reminder.
68. In or of the present month.
69. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
72. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
73. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
77. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.

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