Crossword Puzzle Number 4973 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
4. Stay too long.
12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
15. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
16. The hot period between early July and early September.
17. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
18. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
20. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
21. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
22. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
23. A style of glazed earthenware.
25. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
27. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
29. An associate who shares an apartment with you.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. (Irish) The sea personified.
33. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
35. A drama set to music.
38. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
43. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
46. Again but in a new or different way.
47. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
48. Bred for many generation from member of a recognized breed or strain.
52. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
53. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
54. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
56. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
57. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
59. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
60. Fallow deer.
63. Sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others.
67. British informal term.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
70. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
73. Black tropical American cuckoo.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. (of water) Rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure.
77. The force of workers available.
78. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
79. The type genus of the family Nymphaeaceae.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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1. Analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence).
2. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
3. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
4. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
5. Any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes.
6. Half the width of an em.
7. The basic unit of money in Iran.
8. One who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses.
9. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
12. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
13. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
14. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
19. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
24. Type genus of the Echeneididae.
26. The ending of a series or sequence.
28. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
30. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
34. Type genus of the Upupidae.
36. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
37. Small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers.
39. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
40. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
41. The sixth month of the civil year.
42. An informal term for a father.
44. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
45. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.
49. A person who is paid to pray for the soul of another.
50. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals.
51. A widely distributed family of plants.
55. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
58. Very generous.
61. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
62. A state in New England.
64. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
65. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
66. The mother of Jesus.
69. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
71. Liveliness and energy.
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
76. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.

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