Crossword Puzzle Number 2151 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
4. A tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
16. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
19. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
20. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
22. Russian country house.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
31. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
34. A member of an ancient people living east of Babylonia as early as 4000 BC.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
41. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
44. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
45. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
47. African mahogany trees.
48. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
49. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
50. Material used to daub walls.
51. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
52. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
53. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
56. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
59. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
61. A primeval personification of air and breath.
62. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
63. Being nine more than ninety.
64. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
69. 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.
73. A bachelor's degree in religion.
74. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
76. Toward the mouth or oral region.
77. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
78. A doctor's degree in education.
80. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
83. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
84. A light touch or stroke.
85. (botany) Having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow.
86. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

DOWN

1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
3. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
4. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
5. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
6. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
7. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
8. Jordan's port.
9. In a sedate manner.
10. A form of address for a man.
11. The residue that remains when something is burned.
12. The closing section of a musical composition.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
21. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
23. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
24. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
32. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
33. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
35. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
36. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
37. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
38. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
42. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
43. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
46. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
54. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
55. More often or more frequently.
57. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo.
58. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
60. A state in New England.
65. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
66. The quality of a person's voice.
67. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
68. In the Roman calendar.
70. Type genus of the Amiidae.
71. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
72. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
81. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
82. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.

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