Crossword Puzzle Number 2237 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. A motley assortment of things.
12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. The edible flesh of any of various crabs.
17. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
18. The residue that remains when something is burned.
19. Material for starting a fire.
20. A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures.
22. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
24. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
25. An expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines).
27. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
30. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
33. First in order of birth.
36. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
37. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
39. United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964).
41. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
43. Italian poet (1569-1625).
44. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
45. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
48. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
49. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. Clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures.
53. A state in New England.
54. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
56. Jordan's port.
59. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
64. A tight-fitting headdress.
65. Boas and pythons.
67. 1/1000 gram.
69. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
72. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
73. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
76. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
77. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
78. East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber.
80. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
81. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
82. Board a train.
83. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.

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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. The month following September and preceding November.
5. The trade name for a drug used to treat upper respirator congestion.
6. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. A green transparent form of beryl.
9. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
10. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
11. 1 species.
12. The place where some action occurs.
13. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
21. (or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) Small genus of widely distributed marine plants.
23. A formal expression of praise.
26. Any member of a ship's crew.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
31. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
32. A benign tumor composed of muscle tissue.
34. Make numb or insensitive.
35. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
38. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
46. A New England state.
47. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
50. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
52. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
55. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
57. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
58. South American cavy.
60. An employee whose duties include running errands.
61. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
63. A medium to dark brownish yellow color.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
70. The girl friend of a gangster.
71. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
74. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
75. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
79. Half the width of an em.

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