Crossword Puzzle Number 2837 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
5. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
16. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language.
17. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
18. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
19. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
20. Affect with wonder.
22. A genus of Psittacidae.
24. American dwarf fan palms.
25. A doctor's degree in optometry.
26. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
27. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
32. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
33. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
37. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
39. A sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling.
41. The boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
42. Any stoppage attributable to unusual activity.
45. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
46. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
47. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
51. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
52. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
54. Leafless East Indian vine.
55. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
57. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
59. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
61. Used of a single unit or thing.
62. A Russian river.
64. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
68. Having the slant of a bevel.
72. Being derived from.
73. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
76. Jordan's port.
77. The basic unit of money in Romania.
78. Lengthen in time.
80. (British) Your grandmother.
81. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
82. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
2. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
3. Colloquial British abbreviation.
4. The capital of Turkey.
5. The part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks.
6. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
7. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
8. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
9. Used in combination to denote the middle.
10. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
11. Squash bugs.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
14. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
21. The capital of Bahrain.
23. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
28. Declare formally.
29. A state in midwestern United States.
30. A cgs unit of work or energy.
31. Money paid out.
34. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
35. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
36. The form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation.
38. Fell sadness.
40. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
43. An animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work.
44. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. French general who became Emperor of the French (1769-1821).
50. A small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet.
53. A genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae.
56. Anything that covers or conceals.
58. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. Of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture.
65. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. On or toward the lee.
70. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
71. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
74. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
75. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
79. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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