Crossword Puzzle Number 2728 (Medium Grid)

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1. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
4. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
11. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
15. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
16. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
17. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
18. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
19. Little known Kamarupan languages.
20. The lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg.
21. Take in solid food.
22. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
24. Edible greenish substance in boiled lobster.
26. Common house and field crickets.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. A large round wicker basket (used on farms).
38. American Revolutionary patriot.
42. Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms (1879-1919).
44. Fallow deer.
47. A doctor's degree in theology.
48. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
50. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
52. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
53. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
54. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
60. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
62. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
65. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
69. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
73. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
76. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
77. The segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British).
78. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
79. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
80. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
81. Bound by chains fastened around the ankles.
84. (British) Your grandmother.
85. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
86. No longer concealed.
87. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
2. Of a pale purple color.
3. The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal.
4. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
5. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
6. Make anew.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Something acquired without compensation.
9. A town in central Belgium.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
11. Release from a clasp.
12. A person of French descent.
13. A characteristic state or mode of living.
14. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
28. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
32. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
33. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
35. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
36. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
37. A genus of Ploceidae.
39. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
40. Type genus of the Amiidae.
41. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
46. A bachelor's degree in library science.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. Humorously vulgar.
55. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
57. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
59. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
61. Cause to lose one's nerve.
63. With rapid movements.
64. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
66. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
70. The content of cognition.
71. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
72. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
74. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
75. On or toward the lee.
82. The eleventh month of the civil year.
83. A doctor's degree in religion.

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