Crossword Puzzle Number 2877 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An industrial city is southeastern Austria.
5. Medium for radio and television broadcasting.
12. A man who serves as a sailor.
15. A narrow way or road.
16. Without compunction or human feeling.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Direct opposite.
20. Indigo bush.
22. (Greek mythology) An Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos.
23. Enact or perform again.
25. A farewell remark.
26. A numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number.
27. Overgrown with ivy.
30. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
34. (British) Your grandmother.
35. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
38. King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
47. French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870).
49. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
51. (prefix) Within.
52. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
54. Not final or absolute.
55. A heavy precious metallic element.
56. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
58. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
59. Owning or consisting of land or real estate.
63. Squash bugs.
65. Relating to or associated with Arabia or its people.
68. A public promotion of some product or service.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. A column of light (as from a beacon).
74. The animal order including amoebas.
78. A boy or man.
79. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
82. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
83. A major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation.
84. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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1. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
2. Type genus of the Ranidae.
3. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
4. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
5. Garlic mayonnaise.
6. Give qualities or abilities to.
7. Of southern Asia.
8. A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta.
9. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
10. A state in the eastern United States.
11. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
12. Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. (informal) Very tired.
19. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. Administer an oil or ointment to.
24. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
28. Void of thought or knowledge.
29. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
31. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
32. An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme.
33. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
36. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
37. The state of being unsure of something.
39. A person's brother or sister.
40. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
42. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
44. An Asian river between China and Russia.
48. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
50. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
53. In the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie.
57. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
60. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
61. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
62. A town in southwestern Idaho.
64. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
66. A Hindu prince or king in India.
67. 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.
70. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
71. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
72. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. (formerly) A title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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