Crossword Puzzle Number 4875 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Type genus of the Pipidae.
5. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
11. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
15. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
16. Showing a brooding ill humor.
17. The capital of Western Samoa.
18. Chick-pea plant.
19. Given or having a specified name.
20. Tasting sour like a lemon.
21. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
22. Asian rat snakes.
24. Lean end of the neck.
27. Before noon.
28. Very great.
31. A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture).
34. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
38. Unknown god.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. A light touch or stroke.
42. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
48. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
50. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
51. An acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions.
53. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
55. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
56. Remove completely from recognition or memory.
58. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
60. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
64. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
67. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
72. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
75. The habitation of wild animals.
76. Estrangement from god.
77. An order of Eutheria.
79. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
80. Deserving or inciting pity.
81. (South African) A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers).

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1. A tributary of the Rio Grande.
2. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
3. Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America.
4. Used of a single unit or thing.
5. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
6. Small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark.
7. Imagined as in a play.
8. The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998.
9. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
10. Either extremity of something that has length.
11. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Cataflam).
12. Remote and separate physically or socially.
13. Light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity).
14. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. Type genus of the Amiidae.
26. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
29. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. The capital of Morocco.
33. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
35. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
37. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. The sterilization of an animal.
46. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
47. Of or relating to the urethra.
49. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
52. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
54. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
57. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
61. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
62. Excessively fat.
63. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
65. English essayist (1775-1834).
66. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
68. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
69. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
73. Seed of a pea plant.
74. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
78. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.

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