Crossword Puzzle Number 5068 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Provided with artificial light.
4. Round gourd of the calabash tree.
12. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. A formal written defense of something you believe in strongly.
17. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
18. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
19. A dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography.
20. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
21. Island in West Indies.
23. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
25. A state in northwestern North America.
26. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
28. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
30. A convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain.
33. Relating to or being within or near the inner side or limit.
35. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
36. A French abbot.
39. Lower in esteem.
43. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
46. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
48. An unintentional but embarrassing blunder.
49. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
51. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
53. A city in southeastern South Korea.
55. A group of countries in special alliance.
56. A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium).
59. (British) Your grandmother.
60. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
61. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
62. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
65. An important dogsled race run annually on the Iditarod Trail.
69. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
73. Not reflecting light.
74. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
77. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
80. On or toward the lee.
81. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
82. The conversion of waste land into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. Floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. Bark rich in tannin.
4. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
5. Twining perennial North American plants.
6. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
7. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
8. A person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow.
9. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
10. The Indic language of the Sindhi people.
11. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
12. Of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color n 1.
13. Jordan's port.
14. A Hindu prince or king in India.
22. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
24. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
27. An elaborate party (often outdoors).
29. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
31. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930).
32. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
34. Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.
37. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
38. Loose temporary stitches.
40. Moving quickly and lightly.
41. A shoe carved from a single block of wood.
42. Any plant of the genus Erica.
44. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
45. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
50. 16 ounces.
52. The medieval dialects of Langue d'oc.
54. Not equal in amount.
57. A person who delivers a speech or oration.
58. Hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach.
63. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
64. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
68. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
70. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
71. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
72. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
75. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
76. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

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