Crossword Puzzle Number 2282 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. The academic world.
12. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. (Italian cookery) Squid prepared as food.
17. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. United States screenwriter who was blacklisted and imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with congressional investigations of communism in America (1905-1976).
20. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
22. A fraudulent business scheme.
24. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
26. South African term for `boss'.
27. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
29. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
31. Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in northernmost Burma and adjacent China and India.
35. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
36. Of or relating to or involving an area.
43. Wife of Balder.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Type genus of the Suidae.
48. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
49. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
50. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
53. A light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol.
55. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
56. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
67. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
68. With eagerness.
71. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
75. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
76. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
77. Baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables.
78. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
79. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
80. A disposition to behave in a certain way.
81. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
5. An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms.
6. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
7. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
8. To fix or set securely or deeply.
9. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
10. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
11. A resource.
12. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
13. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
14. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
21. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
23. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. Of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips.
30. A Russian river.
32. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
33. Perfume esp. with a censer.
34. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
37. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
38. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
39. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
40. Ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail.
41. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
51. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. A special way of doing something.
57. A native of ancient Troy.
59. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
60. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
61. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
62. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
63. Someone who plies a trade.
64. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
66. English essayist (1775-1834).
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
70. The twelfth month of the civil year.
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
73. A tight-fitting headdress.
74. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.

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