Crossword Puzzle Number 4815 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
4. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness.
12. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
15. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
16. An instrument for measuring the distance between two points.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. Muslim name for God.
20. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. Of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people.
24. Aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning.
25. In bed.
27. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
28. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
31. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines.
36. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
40. The cry made by sheep.
42. (prefix) Consisting of more than one.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A radioactive transuranic element.
47. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
48. A small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins.
51. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
54. Lichens of the family Usneaceae having a pendulous or shrubby thallus.
56. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
57. Unknown god.
58. (Akkadian) God ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead.
60. Characteristic of false pride.
62. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
64. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
67. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
72. Preserve a dead body.
75. Being one more than nine.
76. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. Noisy talk.
80. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
81. Duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct.
82. Black tropical American cuckoo.

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1. Collect or gather.
2. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
3. The twelfth month of the civil year.
4. Ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column.
5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
7. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
8. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
9. Copy that is not the original.
10. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
11. An honorary degree in science.
12. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
13. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
21. Found along western Atlantic coast.
26. A document listing the alternatives that is used in voting.
29. A state in New England.
30. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
34. A Greek island west of Greece.
35. Relating to or resembling an ape.
37. Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes.
38. Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
45. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
46. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
49. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
50. Widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers.
52. A common large finch of Eurasia.
53. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic.
55. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high).
59. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
61. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
63. Jordan's port.
65. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
66. A French abbot.
68. A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea.
69. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
70. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
71. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
73. How long something has existed.
74. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
78. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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