Crossword Puzzle Number 2163 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A branch of the Tai languages.
5. A case used to carry belongings when traveling.
12. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
15. Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India.
16. The Fate who cuts the thread of life.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. Oil palms.
20. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
21. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. Talking idly or incoherently.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
26. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
27. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
34. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
37. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
42. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
44. A flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf.
45. Advanced in years.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
50. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
57. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
58. The state of being behind in payments.
60. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
63. The act of scanning.
64. A public promotion of some product or service.
65. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
68. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
72. An informal term for a father.
74. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
77. Type genus of the Anatidae.
78. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
80. The sixth day of the week.
81. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
82. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
83. Up to the present time.

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1. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
2. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
3. Jordan's port.
4. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
5. An oil port in southern Iraq.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. An African amulet.
8. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
9. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
10. Any thick messy substance.
11. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
12. A domain in which something is dominant.
13. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
14. A genus of Ploceidae.
19. Being nine more than forty.
23. A quantity of no importance.
25. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
28. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. God of wealth and love.
33. Any of various units of capacity.
35. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
36. A fraudulent business scheme.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
40. Person who does no work.
41. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
43. Found on a farm.
47. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
53. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
54. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
55. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
56. (informal) Of the highest quality.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. Leafless East Indian vine.
66. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
67. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
69. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
70. Fraught with extreme danger.
71. An opening that permits escape or release.
73. Having only superficial plausibility.
75. The month following August and preceding October.
76. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
79. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.

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