Crossword Puzzle Number 2252 (Medium Grid)

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1. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
4. The dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess.
11. God of fire.
15. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
16. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
17. A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
18. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
19. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
23. Avatar of Vishnu.
25. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. In motion.
37. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
38. A city in northwestern Syria.
40. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
41. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
43. Being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north.
45. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
46. Constituting or relating to a tail.
48. Primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles.
51. A means of serving.
52. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
54. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
55. A person of Polish descent.
57. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
59. A mark to indicate a direction or relation.
60. (informal) Of the highest quality.
61. A Loloish language.
63. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
71. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
73. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
75. Relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs.
78. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
79. The month following March and preceding May.
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.

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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
4. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
5. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
6. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
7. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
8. Fallow deer.
9. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
10. Informal terms for a mother.
11. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
12. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
13. An impression in a surface (as made by a blow).
14. Of the color of black ink.
20. Bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set.
22. Set down according to a plan.
24. A genus of Psittacidae.
26. Not out.
28. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
30. The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves.
31. Relating to or using sight.
32. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
33. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
34. A small drum with one head of soft calfskin.
35. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
36. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.
39. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
42. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
44. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
47. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
49. Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals.
50. A sudden short attack.
53. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
56. Coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico.
58. The cry made by sheep.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
65. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
66. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
67. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
68. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
69. Look at with amorous intentions.
70. A quantity of no importance.
72. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
76. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
77. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).

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