Crossword Puzzle Number 2543 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
4. Waves breaking on the shore.
12. Inquire about.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Of or relating to Thomas Huxley.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.
20. Lower in esteem.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people.
24. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
27. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
29. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
31. Type genus of the Anatidae.
34. Beside one another in a row or rank.
38. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
40. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
43. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. New Guinea echidnas.
46. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
49. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
50. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
51. Of or relating to or involving an area.
54. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
55. Impaired by diminution.
58. Having leadership guidance.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
63. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
67. Generally approved or compelling recognition.
71. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
72. A small island.
75. A broad highway designed for high-speed traffic.
76. God of the underworld.
77. Someone with an aggressively negative attitude.
79. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
80. Used of a single unit or thing.
81. Used of independent armed resistance forces.
82. Late time of life.

DOWN

1. A large number or amount.
2. A city in northwestern Syria.
3. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
4. A landlocked principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.
5. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
6. (combining form) Former.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
10. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
11. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. The act of scanning.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
19. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
23. The seventh month of the civil year.
26. The doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. Be on one's guard.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
35. Relating to or near the radius.
36. Rich in decorative detail.
37. Freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk.
39. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
41. A nation in northern North America.
42. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
47. (botany) Especially of leaves.
48. A state of readiness to respond.
52. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
53. Comb with a heckle.
56. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
57. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
61. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
62. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
64. Characteristic of false pride.
65. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
66. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
68. Affectedly dainty or refined.
69. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
70. Two items of the same kind.
73. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
74. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
78. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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