Crossword Puzzle Number 4883 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Give a nickname to.
4. Mediation by an umpire.
12. Inquire about.
15. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
16. The shell of a marine organism.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. (statistics) Having a single mode.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. A channel for the water current that turns a millwheel.
23. A master's degree in education.
25. 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.
26. A grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public.
28. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
32. A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior.
36. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
39. Located in or toward the back or rear.
40. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
42. A bachelor's degree in religion.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
46. Before noon.
48. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
51. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
55. An associate degree in nursing.
56. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
58. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
62. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
64. Greek Cynic philosopher who rejected social conventions (circa 400-325 BC).
67. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
71. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
72. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. (British) Your grandmother.
77. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.
79. Wild and domestic cattle.
80. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

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1. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
2. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
5. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
6. An effortful attempt to attain a goal.
7. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
8. Resembling a rhombus.
9. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
10. Any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers.
11. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
24. A language of Australian aborigines.
27. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
29. A port city in southwestern Iran.
30. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services.
34. The chief official in charge of a prison.
35. A large fleet.
37. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
38. A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog).
41. A slight amount or degree of difference.
47. Sauce for pasta.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve.
52. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
57. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
60. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
61. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
63. Being one more than ten.
65. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
66. Used of the language of the deaf.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. Very dark black.
70. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
73. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
74. Black tropical American cuckoo.
78. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.

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