Crossword Puzzle Number 4455 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (British) Sleep.
4. Early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum.
12. The act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope.
15. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
16. A successful womanizer (after a fictional seducer).
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980).
20. Typical geese.
21. The basic unit of money in Albania.
22. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
23. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
24. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
26. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
29. Make uniform.
31. The highest level or degree attainable.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
35. A commercial airplane that carries passengers.
39. (Scotland) A landowner.
41. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
43. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
44. (of pop groups) Not affiliated with a major recording company n.
45. Fiddler crabs.
48. Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas.
51. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
52. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
53. A young horse.
54. Evergreen shrubs with intricately twisted wiry stems that in summer are smothered in small yellow flowers.
57. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
59. (combining form) Former.
60. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
61. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
66. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
74. The sixth month of the civil year.
78. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
79. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
80. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high).
82. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
83. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
84. A used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads.
85. A unit of length of thread or yarn.

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1. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
2. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
3. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
4. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
5. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. Adopted in order to deceive.
8. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
9. Any of various plants of the genus Ursinia grown for their yellow- or orange- or white-rayed flowers.
10. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
11. Of or relating to the aorta.
12. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
19. (biology) Relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus.
25. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
28. Loud confused noise from many sources.
30. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
32. Type genus of the Canidae.
33. The location of something surrounded by other things.
36. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
37. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
38. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
40. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
42. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
46. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
47. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
49. The closing section of a musical composition.
50. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
55. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
56. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
58. Included seven times in every 19 years.
62. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
63. Lower in esteem.
65. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
67. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
70. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
71. (Welsh) A warrior god.
72. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
73. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
75. (Irish) The sea personified.
76. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
77. In or of the month preceding the present one.
81. An informal term for a father.

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