Crossword Puzzle Number 2647 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. A small pitcher for serving cream.
11. A vigorous blow.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. A flowering shrub.
17. American novelist (1909-1955).
18. A human limb.
19. The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion v 1.
21. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
23. Small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.
25. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
26. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
28. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
29. Lacking taste or flavor or tang.
32. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
34. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
38. Little known Kamarupan languages.
40. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
41. An enclosed space.
42. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
43. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. Situated in front of the anus.
50. Durable fragrant wood.
52. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
53. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
54. A long-playing phonograph record.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
59. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
61. A boy or man.
63. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
67. An informal term for a father.
69. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
72. Regional and archaic.
74. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
78. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
79. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
81. A light touch or stroke.
82. A former French coin of low denomination.
83. Of or relating to or containing balsam.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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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. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
3. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
4. Having a claw or claws.
5. The airforce of Great Britain.
6. Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering.
7. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
8. East Asian perennial herbs.
9. (prefix) Within.
10. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
11. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
12. God of fire.
13. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
14. Cut off the testicles.
20. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
22. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
24. Included seven times in every 19 years.
27. Conducive to peace.
30. Away from the mouth or oral region.
31. A republic in central Europe.
33. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
35. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
36. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
37. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
39. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
44. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
45. A motley assortment of things.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
51. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
55. Old World woody vines.
56. An associate degree in nursing.
60. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
62. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
64. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
65. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
73. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
75. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
76. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
80. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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