Crossword Puzzle Number 2208 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
5. A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
15. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
16. Two performers or singers who perform together.
17. Toward the mouth or oral region.
18. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
19. Exultantly proud and joyful.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
24. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
26. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
27. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
31. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A port city in northwestern Germany.
39. (British) Your grandmother.
43. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
44. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
48. Mended or put in working order.
49. Of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. School of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith.
55. A person of Polish descent.
58. Small genus of Eurasian herbs.
61. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
62. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
66. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
69. Covered or wrapped with a bandage.
71. The cry made by sheep.
72. Spider monkeys.
75. Jordan's port.
76. A decree that prohibits something.
77. The front limb (or homologous structure in other animals such as a flipper or wing).
79. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
80. A cgs unit of work or energy.
81. Agarics with pink spores but lacking both volva and annulus (includes some that are poisonous).
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
2. English essayist (1775-1834).
3. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
4. The basic unit of money in Macao.
5. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
6. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
7. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
8. A specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission.
9. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
10. Having leadership guidance.
11. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
12. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
22. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
23. Large Indian antelope.
25. A state in midwestern United States.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
29. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
30. An Italian woman of rank.
32. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
37. Become ground down or deteriorate.
38. A proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys.
40. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
45. 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.
52. A bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end.
53. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
56. A bottle with a stopper.
57. United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966).
59. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
60. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
68. A special way of doing something.
70. A genus of European owls.
73. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
74. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
78. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.

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