Crossword Puzzle Number 2627 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A small tuft or lock.
5. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
12. Extremely pleasing.
15. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
16. Genus of deciduous shrubs or small trees of eastern Mediterranean regions and tropical Asia.
17. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
18. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
19. A geometric element that has position but no extension.
20. A passage with access only at one end.
21. A shaped mass of baked bread.
22. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
23. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
24. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
26. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
30. A radioactive transuranic element.
32. The cry made by sheep.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
37. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
40. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
41. An adult castrated bull of the genus Bos.
42. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
47. God of fire.
49. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
50. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
52. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
53. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
54. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
55. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
57. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
59. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
61. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
62. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
67. (informal) Of the highest quality.
68. Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.
70. The seventh and last day of the week.
73. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
77. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
78. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
81. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
82. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
84. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
85. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
86. An abnormal loss of strength.
87. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.

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1. Make high-pitched, whiney noises.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. Big-eyed scad.
4. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
5. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
6. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
7. An official at a baseball game.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
10. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
11. Form or shape by forcing through an opening.
12. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
13. Lie adjacent to another.
14. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
25. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
27. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
28. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
29. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
31. Wild and menacing.
35. An informal conversation.
36. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. The capital of Croatia.
43. A member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. An informal term for a father.
48. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
51. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
56. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
58. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
60. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
63. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
64. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
66. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
69. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
71. On or toward the lee.
72. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
74. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
75. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
76. Type genus of the Anatidae.
79. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
83. Being one more than one.

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