Crossword Puzzle Number 2125 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
5. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
11. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
15. A city in northern India.
16. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
17. Denuded of leaves.
18. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
20. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
25. Metal shackles.
28. Someone who bakes commercially.
30. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
32. (zoology) Having a tail or taillike appendage.
34. Made afraid.
36. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
37. By bad luck.
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
42. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
43. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
44. Type genus of the Anatidae.
46. 16 ounces.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
54. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
57. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
58. The capital and largest city of Japan.
60. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
61. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
64. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
65. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
66. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
69. Spread or diffuse through.
73. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
77. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
78. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
80. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
81. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
84. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
85. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
86. Lower the grade of something.
87. Disposed of to a purchaser.

DOWN

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A large fleet.
4. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
5. The square of a body of any size of type.
6. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
9. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
10. A doctor's degree in education.
11. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
12. Make a cackling sound.
13. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
14. Located in or toward the back or rear.
19. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
27. Of a kind specified or understood.
29. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
31. Come into existence.
33. Basic principles of the cosmos.
35. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
38. Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus.
39. A deep bow.
45. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
47. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
48. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. Make reference to.
53. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
55. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
56. (used of statements) Harmful and often untrue.
59. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
62. God of love and erotic desire.
63. The thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest.
67. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
68. Not out.
70. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
71. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
72. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
74. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
75. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
76. A town in north central Oklahoma.
79. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
82. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
83. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).

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