Crossword Puzzle Number 2423 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. Inflate again, as of a balloon.
11. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
15. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
16. Heighten or intensify.
17. A Loloish language.
18. The fatty flesh of eel.
19. Cheerful and bright.
20. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
21. A member of the Dravidian people living in northern Bengal in eastern India.
23. Dividing an animal into right and left halves.
25. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
26. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
28. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
30. A place where taxis park while awaiting customers.
32. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
35. Rounded like an egg.
36. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
43. A genus of bee.
44. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
46. Two items of the same kind.
48. (prefix) Half or partial.
49. An Anatolian language.
52. A boy or man.
53. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
54. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
55. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
59. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
61. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
64. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
65. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
68. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
72. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
74. The capital of Eritrea.
78. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
82. The cry made by sheep.
83. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
84. Having undesirable or negative qualities.

DOWN

1. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A loose cloak with a hood.
4. Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes.
5. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
6. Large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill.
7. Sweetened beverage of lime juice and water.
8. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
9. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
10. Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged.
11. Extremely pleasing.
12. Jordan's port.
13. A human female who does housework.
14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
22. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
24. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
27. The habitation of wild animals.
29. God of blame and mockery.
31. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
33. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
34. A way of access consisting of a set of steps.
37. A genus of Indriidae.
38. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
41. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
42. United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967).
45. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
47. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. Type genus of the Amiidae.
51. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
57. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
60. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
67. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
69. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
70. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
71. A town in north central Oklahoma.
73. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
76. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. Being nine more than ninety.

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