Crossword Puzzle Number 2599 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
5. City recognized by the United States as the capital of the Ivory Coast.
12. An accountant certified by the state.
15. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
16. Epithet of Siva.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. A sudden quick movement.
19. A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
20. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
21. The front limb of a quadruped.
23. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
24. 10 grams.
25. Gone by.
26. An expression of greeting.
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
29. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
31. Take in solid food.
32. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
34. Colloquial British abbreviation.
38. Take away the weapons from.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
46. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
47. British informal term.
48. A truck for collecting domestic refuse.
53. A senior clergyman.
54. (anatomy) A small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve).
55. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
56. One thousandth of a second.
58. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
59. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
60. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
61. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
63. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
67. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
72. A port city in southwestern Iran.
74. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
75. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
76. Genus of perennial wildflowers of North American plains and prairies.
78. (British) Your grandmother.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
80. A fibrous amphibole.
81. Late time of life.

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1. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
2. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
3. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
4. Any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero.
5. (psychology) Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal.
6. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
7. Being one more than two.
8. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
9. A country on the island of Jamaica.
10. The eleventh month of the civil year.
11. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. Highly excited.
22. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. Know or grasp by intuition or feeling.
33. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
35. Violent and needless disturbance.
36. An authoritative person who divines the future.
37. Make a cackling sound.
39. A useful or valuable quality.
40. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
41. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing.
42. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
45. Not widely known.
49. (botany) Divided into three lobs.
50. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
51. (grammar) A verb tense used to relate past action.
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
57. Protective garment worn by surgeons during operations.
62. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
64. Very dark black.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. Type genus of the Anatidae.
68. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
69. By bad luck.
70. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
71. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
73. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
77. A metallic element of the rare earth group.

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