Crossword Puzzle Number 2863 (Medium Grid)

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. First in rank or degree.
11. A Loloish language.
15. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
16. Baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables.
17. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
18. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
20. (medical) A bandage consisting of a pad and belt.
21. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
22. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
24. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. Causing alarm or fear.
28. 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).
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
33. Formally making a person known to another or to the public.
37. Beside one another in a row or rank.
39. (Welsh) A warrior god.
42. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. The fur of a rabbit.
45. A state in northwestern North America.
47. (informal) Of the highest quality.
49. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
51. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
52. Shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods.
55. Traveling on horseback.
57. Distant in either space or time.
58. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
59. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
60. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
63. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
66. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
72. The capital of Eritrea.
74. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
76. An associate degree in applied science.
77. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
78. A native or inhabitant of Armenia.
80. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
81. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
82. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
83. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.

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1. The sixth month of the civil year.
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. Jordan's port.
4. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
7. Very large red gum tree.
8. Lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands.
9. A person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or Coast Guard.
10. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
13. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
14. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
23. Using speech rather than writing.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
31. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
34. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
35. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
36. Bearing or characterized by a blade or sword.
38. A drama set to music.
40. 1 species.
41. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
43. (British abbreviation) "he accepted it on appro".
46. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. In addition.
50. Of or infected by or resembling malaria.
53. City in Sudan.
54. 1 species.
56. Look at with amorous intentions.
61. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
62. Type genus of the Gavidae.
64. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
65. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
67. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
69. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
75. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
79. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.

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