Crossword Puzzle Number 4989 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
4. Relatively small tuna with choice white flesh.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
15. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
16. Reflects weight of sound argument or evidence.
17. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
20. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
21. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
23. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
25. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
26. Being nine more than ninety.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. Having relatively few calories.
31. A doctor's degree in optometry.
32. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
36. A light touch or stroke.
38. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
39. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
42. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
49. (informal) Of the highest quality.
50. Belonging to some prior time.
53. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
56. Remote and separate physically or socially.
57. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
59. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
61. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood.
65. Assistance in time of difficulty.
69. Sudanese sorghums having white seeds.
70. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
71. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
72. A city in the northern panhandle of Texas.
75. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
76. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
77. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin).
80. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
81. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
82. The country where you were born.
83. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.

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1. Gather, as of as crops.
2. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
3. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
4. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
5. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. The sign language used in the United States.
8. A skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law v 1.
9. (sports) Not offside.
10. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
11. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
12. Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns.
13. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
14. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
22. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.
30. The bill in a restaurant.
33. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
34. A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries.
35. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
37. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
40. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
41. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
43. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
44. Tasting sour like a lemon.
46. United States actor (born in Hungary) noted for playing sinister roles (1904-1964).
47. A large number or amount.
51. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
52. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
54. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
55. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars.
58. (printing) A short line at the end of the main strokes of a character.
60. (of hair) "auburn hair".
62. Large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails.
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
64. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.
66. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705).
67. Take control of.
68. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
73. An advanced law degree.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
79. A public promotion of some product or service.

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