Crossword Puzzle Number 2187 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn.
12. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
15. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
16. Characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. (informal) Of the highest quality.
19. Pull back or move away or backward.
20. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
22. A fraudulent business scheme.
24. Characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement.
26. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
27. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
29. The innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel).
31. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
34. French novelist.
38. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
41. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. Leafless East Indian vine.
44. An attribute that fits a person for something.
47. A lack of vitality.
49. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
50. A kind of literary or artistic work.
53. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
54. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
59. Of or relating to or containing barium.
61. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
63. English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812).
70. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
71. A deliberately false or improbable account.
74. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
75. Indicating the most important performer or role.
76. Be abundant or plentiful.
78. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
79. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
80. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
81. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.

DOWN

1. Cause to be embarrassed.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
4. (Irish) The sea personified.
5. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
6. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
7. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
8. French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917).
9. An active and efficient cause.
10. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
11. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
12. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
13. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
14. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
21. A kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface).
23. Middle-distance iron.
25. A castrated tomcat.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
32. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
33. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
35. A belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic.
36. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
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).
39. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
40. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
42. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
45. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
46. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
48. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
51. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
52. A state in New England.
55. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
56. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
57. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
58. A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Vela.
60. An associate degree in nursing.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
64. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
65. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
66. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
67. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
68. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
69. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
77. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.

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