Crossword Puzzle Number 4822 (Medium Grid)

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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).
12. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
15. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
16. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
17. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
18. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
19. Liquid excretory product.
20. Take to be the case or to be true.
22. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
23. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
26. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
29. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
30. Guiding star.
33. Any of various small biting flies.
36. Flat tableland with steep edges.
38. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
39. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
40. Cause to move back by force or influence.
42. The lowest brass wind instrument.
46. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
48. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
50. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
51. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
52. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. Slightly open.
54. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
57. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
59. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
61. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
64. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
67. Beyond what is natural.
70. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
71. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
73. Detected or perceived by the sense of hearing.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
79. Extremely pleasing.
80. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
81. Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816).
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. Earlier a god.
3. Obvious and dull.
4. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
5. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
6. Water scorpions.
7. A man who courts a woman.
8. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
9. A state in New England.
10. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
11. Ctenophore having short tentacles.
12. A trinket or piece of jewelry thought to be a protection against evil.
13. A member of an Indian people of northern California living along the Russian River valley and adjacent Pacific coast.
14. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
21. East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder.
24. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
25. Gone by.
27. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
28. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
31. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
32. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
34. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
35. The act of mimicking.
37. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
41. Lap at the front of a coat.
43. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
45. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
47. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
49. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
55. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
56. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
58. A port city in southwestern Iran.
60. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Jordan's port.
65. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
66. A mythical Greek hero.
68. A human female who does housework.
69. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
72. The unit of frequency.
74. A resource.
75. A master's degree in fine arts.
78. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.

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