Crossword Puzzle Number 4524 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A very light brown.
5. A port town on the Atlantic coast of Portugal southeast of Lisbon.
12. The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros.
15. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
16. Flatter in an obsequious manner.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
19. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
20. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
22. A squeaking sound.
24. In the process of being born or beginning.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. Transient cessation of respiration.
29. Extremely pleasing.
32. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
38. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
40. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
43. A bottle with a stopper.
45. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
47. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
49. Black tropical American cuckoo.
50. Desire strongly or persistently.
51. A person who makes things.
52. A special loved one.
55. Having a capacity for adaptation.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
61. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
62. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
66. (informal) Of the highest quality.
70. An epic in Latin by Virgil.
72. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
76. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
77. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
78. A mettlesome or fiery horse.
80. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
81. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
82. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
83. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

DOWN

1. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
2. A human female who does housework.
3. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
4. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
5. The seventh and last day of the week.
6. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
7. A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
8. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
9. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
12. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
13. Very dark black.
14. An association of criminals.
21. Again but in a new or different way.
23. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
31. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
33. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
34. A desert in southern Israel.
35. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
41. Attractiveness to the opposite sex.
42. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
44. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
46. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
48. A cotton fabric with a satiny finish.
53. Of or pertaining to Rwanda.
54. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
56. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
59. The capital and largest city of Iran.
60. The brightest star in Virgo.
63. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
64. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. Using speech rather than writing.
68. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
69. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
71. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
74. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
79. Being ten more than one hundred.

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