Crossword Puzzle Number 2397 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
11. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
15. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
16. In accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle.
17. Look at with amorous intentions.
18. Top part of an apron.
19. Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce).
21. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
23. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
24. (superlative of `near' or `nigh') Most near.
26. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
29. (British) Seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater.
30. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
32. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
36. Scottish ballet dancer and actress (born in 1926).
41. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
43. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
44. A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one.
45. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
47. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
49. Flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of North American Atlantic waters.
53. Step on it.
54. (informal) Someone who is a detective.
57. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
59. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
60. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
62. Having a woven pattern.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. An artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages.
75. A city in north central Nigeria.
76. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
77. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
79. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
80. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
81. A great raja.
82. The force of workers available.

DOWN

1. Having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring.
2. A farewell remark.
3. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
4. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
5. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
6. God of fire.
7. An expression of approval and commendation.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. Swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa.
12. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
13. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
14. The small projection of a mammary gland.
20. The basic unit of money in Panama.
22. Harmed or injured or spoiled.
25. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
27. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
28. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
31. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
34. The act of rewriting something.
35. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
37. The capital city of Vietnam.
38. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
39. American Revolutionary patriot.
40. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
46. A radioactive transuranic element.
48. (Babylonian) Earth goddess.
50. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
51. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
52. A festival featuring African-American culture.
55. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
56. One thousand periods per second.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
63. In bed.
64. Type genus of the Majidae.
65. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
66. French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style (tight bodice and narrow waist and flowing pleated skirt) that became known as the New Look (1905-1957).
67. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
68. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
69. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
70. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
73. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
78. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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