Crossword Puzzle Number 2629 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943).
12. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
16. Arranged without spaces between.
17. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
18. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
19. An island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
23. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
25. Used especially in treating bruises.
27. The present occasion.
29. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
31. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
33. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
36. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
37. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
39. A strain accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias.
42. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.
47. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
49. South African term for `boss'.
51. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
52. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
54. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
58. Luna moths.
61. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
63. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
64. Type genus of the Amiidae.
65. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
69. (psychology) An urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object.
72. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading.
73. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
74. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
77. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
78. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
79. Live off somebody's generosity.
82. A decree that prohibits something.
83. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
84. A former province of northwestern France on the English channel.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
4. A group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico.
5. One or some or every or all without specification.
6. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
7. Situated at an apex.
8. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
9. A skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research.
10. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
11. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
12. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
13. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
14. A three-tone Chadic language.
22. An honorary arts degree.
24. Sour or bitter in taste.
26. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
28. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
30. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
32. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
34. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
41. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
45. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
48. Developed or executed with care and in minute detail.
50. A fraudulent business scheme.
53. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
55. The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
57. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
59. (Welsh myth) The other world.
60. An enclosed space.
62. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
66. Jordan's port.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
70. A sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information.
71. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
75. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
76. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
80. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
81. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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