Crossword Puzzle Number 504 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. A dealer in seeds.
12. An honorary law degree.
15. Tag the base runner to get him out.
16. A salt or ester of arsenic acid.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
19. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
20. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
22. Jordan's port.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. (prefix) Within.
27. Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine.
29. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
30. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
36. A piece of land held under the feudal system.
39. Wood of a pecan tree.
40. Great brightness.
42. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. Disparaging terms for the common people.
48. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
52. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
55. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
58. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
61. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
65. A city in east central Texas.
68. A ballroom dance of Latin-American origin.
70. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
74. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
76. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
80. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
82. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
83. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
84. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
85. A young woman making her debut into society.

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1. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
2. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
3. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
7. A visual presentation showing how something works.
8. The act of catching an object with the hands.
9. Produced by a manufacturing process.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
12. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
13. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
14. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
21. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
23. A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room.
25. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
28. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
31. Fiddler crabs.
32. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
33. Again but in a new or different way.
34. A covered passageway.
35. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
37. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
38. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
41. Growing old.
43. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
47. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
49. American novelist (1909-1955).
50. A genus of Ploceidae.
53. A sharp blow.
54. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
57. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
59. Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence.
60. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
64. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
66. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
67. Wearing or provided with clothing.
69. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
71. Set down according to a plan.
72. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
73. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
75. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
77. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
81. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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