Crossword Puzzle Number 2158 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. Doing arduous or unpleasant work.
12. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
17. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. A nation in northern North America.
20. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
24. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
25. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
28. A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression).
29. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
33. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
37. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
44. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
45. Gull family.
49. An honorary degree in science.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
52. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
53. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
56. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
58. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
60. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
62. Large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia.
66. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
71. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
72. Step on it.
76. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
77. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
78. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
79. A resource.
80. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
81. Eruption on a mucous membrane (as the inside of the mouth) occurring as a symptom of a disease.
82. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.

DOWN

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
7. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
8. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
9. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
12. Being three more than fifty.
13. Look at with amorous intentions.
14. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
21. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers.
23. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
26. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
27. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
30. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
31. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. A town in north central Oklahoma.
34. A machine or person that adds.
35. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
36. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
38. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
40. Used of a single unit or thing.
43. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
46. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
47. A substance derived from amygdalin.
48. Being three more than ninety.
51. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
54. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. Informal terms for a mother.
59. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
61. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
63. A formal expression of praise.
64. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
65. Australian clover fern.
67. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
68. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
69. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
70. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
73. (informal) Of the highest quality.
74. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
75. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.

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