Crossword Puzzle Number 2299 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. White grape grown especially in the Loire Valley in France.
12. A city in northwestern Iran.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
17. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
20. Make reference to.
21. A large number or amount.
22. An honorary arts degree.
26. A slight amount or degree of difference.
27. (trademark) A material used to coat cooking utensils and in industrial applications where sticking is to be avoided.
31. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
34. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
36. A stiff sharp-pointed plant process.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. An industrial city of eastern Poland.
44. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
45. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
49. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
50. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
65. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
67. Capital and largest city of Italy.
70. A branch of the Tai languages.
71. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
73. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
75. A master's degree in business.
76. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
77. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. Tag the base runner to get him out.
80. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
81. Bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
4. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.
5. Goddess of fate.
6. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
7. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
8. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
9. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
10. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
11. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
12. A prescribed number.
13. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
14. Do wrongly or improperly.
23. A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
24. Type genus of the Gliridae.
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
28. All the animal life in a particular region.
29. A small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound.
30. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
32. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
33. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
35. Top part of an apron.
37. A genus of Mustelidae.
38. A telegram sent abroad.
40. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
41. An agenda of things to do.
42. A French abbot.
51. Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918).
52. A large table centerpiece with branching holders for fruit or sweets or flowers.
53. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
54. By bad luck.
56. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
57. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
58. The fifth day of the week.
59. Closed with a lace.
60. Aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver.
61. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
62. A genus of Lamnidae.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Jordan's port.
66. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
68. Using speech rather than writing.
69. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
72. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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