Crossword Puzzle Number 2540 (Medium Grid)

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1. The player judged to be the most important to the sport.
4. A provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time.
12. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
15. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
16. (bridge) A bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand).
17. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
18. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
19. Purchasing back something previously sold.
21. An associate degree in applied science.
22. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
25. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
30. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
32. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
36. Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence.
38. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
40. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
42. Live off somebody's generosity.
45. A state in New England.
46. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
48. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
49. A state in east central United States.
52. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
54. Quandong trees.
56. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
57. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
61. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
62. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
63. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
65. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
68. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
72. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
74. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
75. The force of workers available.
76. The quality of being united into one.
78. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
79. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
80. Cover by strewing.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Capital of Vanuatu.
3. Temporal sense.
4. Having or localized centrally at a focus.
5. Report or maintain.
6. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
7. Free from liquid or moisture.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
10. Make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle.
11. Capital of the state of Washington.
12. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
13. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
14. Wasting time.
20. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
23. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
24. United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937).
26. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
28. The act of drawing or hauling something.
31. Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison.
33. A master's degree in education.
34. A city in northeastern France in Lorraine.
35. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
37. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
39. The act of preventing the opposition from scoring (in sports).
43. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. (of movement) Slow and laborious.
50. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
51. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
53. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
55. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
58. Spider monkeys.
59. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
60. The condition of being susceptible to harm or injury.
64. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
69. On or toward the lee.
70. Flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water.
71. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
73. Characteristic of a mob.
77. The compass point midway between south and west.

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