Crossword Puzzle Number 2400 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
5. A bowling pin of the type used in ninepins (or (in England) skittles).
12. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
15. A mythical Greek hero.
16. Region of northwestern Italy on the Ligurian Sea.
17. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
18. Of or relating to the Isle of Man or its inhabitants or their language.
19. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
23. Nativeness by virtue or originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place).
25. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
31. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
33. An endorsement.
37. A payment of money sent to a person in another place.
40. Having short a smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
42. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. 1 species.
49. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
50. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
52. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses.
54. A Loloish language.
55. Offering fun and gaiety.
58. God of the earth.
60. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
62. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
64. Someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations.
67. A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior.
70. In a competent capable manner.
71. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
73. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
74. Before noon.
75. A pass between mountain peaks.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

DOWN

1. Informal terms for a mother.
2. Slightly open.
3. Type genus of the Ranidae.
4. Being eight more than seventy.
5. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
6. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
7. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
8. Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases.
9. A genus of Scolopacidae.
10. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
11. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
12. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
13. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
26. A passage with access only at one end.
29. Sudanese sorghums having white seeds.
30. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
32. Any of various small biting flies.
34. A knapsack (usually for a soldier).
35. An antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus.
36. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
38. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
39. The bill in a restaurant.
41. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
44. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
45. Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time.
47. (law) A gift of personal property by will.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. Of or relating to or located at the base.
53. (of language) Transparently clear.
56. Used of a single unit or thing.
57. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
59. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
61. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
63. A genus of Platalea.
65. Very dark black.
66. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
68. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
69. Type genus of the Amiidae.
72. The cry made by sheep.
76. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
77. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
78. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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