Crossword Puzzle Number 4285 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Advanced in years.
5. Dark sweet or semisweet dessert wine from Sicily.
12. Inquire about.
15. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
16. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
20. `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially Roman or Orthodox Catholic).
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
24. Lacking vigor or energy.
27. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
28. A master's degree in fine arts.
29. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
33. Singing jazz.
36. The fatty flesh of eel.
38. An associate degree in applied science.
40. Explorer and United States naval officer.
42. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
43. A university town in western Montana.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
51. Insanely irresponsible.
53. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
54. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
56. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
58. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
60. A small island.
62. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
65. A language group of the Hokan family.
67. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
70. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
72. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
74. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
75. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
76. A restricted computer network.
79. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
80. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
81. The Algonquian language of the Malecite and Passamaquody peoples.
82. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.

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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).
3. Escape, either physically or mentally.
4. Determine the essential quality of.
5. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
8. Predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax.
9. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
10. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
19. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
23. A general kind of something.
25. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. Social insect living in organized colonies.
31. Of or relating to an inability to urinate.
32. The basic unit of money in Macao.
34. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
35. State in northeastern India.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. A state of southwestern India.
41. A sudden short attack.
44. A person who rules or commands.
45. A republic in southeastern Europe.
46. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
48. A genus of Laridae.
52. Treated with oil.
55. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
59. cause to accept or become hardened to.
61. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).
63. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
64. Go "ding dong", like a bell.
66. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
68. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
69. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
71. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
73. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
77. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
78. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.

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