Crossword Puzzle Number 4481 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
5. The ability to form mental images of things or events.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. English essayist (1775-1834).
16. Relating to or characterized by or having nodules.
17. A city in northwestern Iran.
18. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
19. A shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
21. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
23. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
25. An ancient board game resembling backgammon.
27. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
28. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
30. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
33. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
44. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
45. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
47. A flexible container with a single opening.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. Towards the side away from the wind.
52. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
53. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
58. A primeval personification of air and breath.
60. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
63. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
65. A state in northwestern North America.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. A grant made by a law court.
72. A branch of the Tai languages.
73. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
75. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
77. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
80. A light touch or stroke.
81. The airforce of Great Britain.
82. Of or relating to or characteristic of Vienna or its inhabitants.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
2. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
5. Serve oneself to, or consume regularly.
6. Fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat.
7. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
8. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
9. Not in good physical or mental health.
10. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
11. A thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery).
12. Jordan's port.
13. The goddess of the moon.
14. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
22. Aroused to impatience or anger.
24. A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects.
26. United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926).
29. In bed.
31. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
32. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
34. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
35. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
39. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
41. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
43. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
46. A decree that prohibits something.
48. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
51. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
54. Squash bugs.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
57. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
59. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
61. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
62. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
64. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
66. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. Jordan's port.
71. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
74. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
76. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
78. Being five more than fifty.
79. Not out.

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