Crossword Puzzle Number 2185 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
4. The condition of having no arms.
12. A person active in party politics.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Underworld organizations.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
20. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
21. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
22. American novelist (1909-1955).
23. The smallest detectable sensation.
25. A thrusting blow with a knife.
28. A reason for wanting something done.
29. God of love and erotic desire.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
33. (combining form) Former.
35. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
44. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of Corsica or its people.
48. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
52. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
53. A genus of Nymphalidae.
55. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
57. Having been read.
59. To a severe or serious degree.
62. An executioner who hangs the condemned person.
66. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
70. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
75. Language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines.
77. A republic in central Europe.
78. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
79. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

DOWN

1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
6. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
7. Be fully aware or cognizant of.
8. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding.
9. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
10. Complacently or inanely foolish.
11. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
12. Music performed for dancing the polka.
13. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
14. A genus of Lamnidae.
19. True confidential information.
24. Jordan's port.
26. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
27. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
31. Load anew with ammunition, "She reloaded the gun carefully".
34. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
36. Goddess of war.
37. Full of flavor.
39. A track or mark left by something that has passed.
40. Devoted to horses.
42. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
43. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
45. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
47. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
49. Part of the province of Newfoundland in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava peninsula in northeastern Canada.
54. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
56. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
58. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
60. A hidden drawback.
61. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
63. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
64. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
65. A state in New England.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
69. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
71. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
72. Take in solid food.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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