Crossword Puzzle Number 2577 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
4. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
12. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
15. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
16. Organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell that is composed of ribonucleic acid.
17. A doctor's degree in education.
18. Forming or set at an angle.
20. God of blame and mockery.
21. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
22. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
24. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
26. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
28. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
30. A thrusting blow with a knife.
33. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
34. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
38. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
39. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
41. The square of a body of any size of type.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. Expel, as of gases and odors.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
54. Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.
56. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
58. A fraudulent business scheme.
59. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
63. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
64. Of or relating to or exhibiting isomerism.
68. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
71. Any thick messy substance.
72. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
81. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
82. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
84. Fiddler crabs.
85. The sign language used in the United States.
86. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
87. A doctor's degree in theology.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
3. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
4. A particular environment or walk of life.
5. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
6. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
7. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
8. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
9. A genus of bee.
10. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
11. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
13. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
14. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
19. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. A native American tent.
27. Of or relating to or involving an area.
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
32. An associate degree in nursing.
35. A large fleet.
36. The person who delivers personal property (goods or money) in trust to the bailee in a bailment.
37. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
40. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
43. A flexible container with a single opening.
45. An uproarious party.
48. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
50. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
51. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
52. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
55. Type genus of the Amiidae.
57. Related to or located at the back.
60. (usually preceded by `in') A detail or point.
61. A sultanate in northwestern Borneo.
65. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
66. Formally making a person known to another or to the public.
67. A light touch or stroke.
69. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
70. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
73. Pulled or drawn tight.
74. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
75. Having been read.
78. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
79. A local computer network for communication between computers.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
83. Being nine more than ninety.

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