Crossword Puzzle Number 2212 (Medium Grid)

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1. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
4. One who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses.
12. God of the earth.
15. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
16. Freetail bats.
17. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
18. Combine with carbon, in chemistry.
20. (of pages) Worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning.
22. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
23. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
25. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
26. A disassembled barrel.
29. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
30. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
33. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
40. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A small piece of cloth.
45. The capital and largest city of Japan.
46. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
50. The 4th planet from the sun.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. A state of abnormal softening of tissue.
54. An informal conversation.
58. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
59. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
62. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
65. United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933).
68. (Bible) The archangel who was the messenger of God.
73. (Sumerian) Sun god.
74. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
77. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
78. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. The longest division of geological time.
81. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
82. City in central Iran.
83. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.

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1. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
2. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
3. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
4. Caught or fixed.
5. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
6. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
7. Make fat or plump.
8. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
9. Gracefully slender.
10. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
11. Make high-pitched, whiney noises.
12. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
13. Opinion or judgment.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
24. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
27. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
28. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
31. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
32. Relating to or characteristic of Hungary.
34. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
35. (Roman mythology) God of love.
36. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
39. A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence.
41. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
48. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
49. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
56. A public promotion of some product or service.
57. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
60. A blind god.
61. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
63. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
64. A villainous Jew in Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist".
66. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
67. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
71. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
72. A narrow way or road.
75. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
76. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.

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