Crossword Puzzle Number 4918 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
15. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
16. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
17. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
18. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
19. Breathing laboriously or convulsively.
20. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
22. Common Indian weaverbird.
24. Spider monkeys.
26. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
27. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. By bad luck.
32. An island in Antigua and Barbuda.
36. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
40. A short synopsis.
44. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
45. Of or relating to two people who are married to each other.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
49. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
50. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
53. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
57. On or toward the lee.
58. Make less active or intense.
60. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
62. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
65. God of death.
67. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
71. Of surpassing excellence.
73. (euphemistic) "he is deceased".
76. The month following August and preceding October.
77. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
80. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
81. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
82. Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean.
84. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
85. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
86. Move in a gyrating fashion.
87. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
3. Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.
4. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
5. The capital of Western Samoa.
6. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
7. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
8. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
9. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
10. Being one more than fifty.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
13. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
14. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
21. A vigorous blow.
23. Fruit of the oak tree.
25. Speaking a Slavic language.
28. Belonging to some prior time.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
33. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
34. A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.
35. Informal terms for clothing.
37. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
38. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
39. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
41. Desire strongly or persistently.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
48. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
51. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. Someone who walks at a leisurely pace.
61. In bed.
63. A volcano in south central Guatemala.
64. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
66. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
68. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
69. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
70. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
72. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
74. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
75. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
78. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
79. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
83. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).

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