Crossword Puzzle Number 5227 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Leafless East Indian vine.
5. United States musician who was the first to use the vibraphone as a jazz instrument (born in 1913).
12. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
15. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
16. Mites and ticks.
17. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
18. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
19. Any of several low-growing pines of western North America.
20. The month following July and preceding September.
21. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
22. Lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner.
24. A song that was formerly popular.
26. Again but in a new or different way.
28. Agarics with pink spores but lacking both volva and annulus (includes some that are poisonous).
29. Not restrained or confined or attached.
30. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built.
34. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
38. Love intensely.
39. Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill.
45. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
46. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
48. The capital of Cameroon.
50. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
51. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
52. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
53. (British) Your grandmother.
54. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
58. A Mid-Atlantic state.
59. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
61. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
64. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
65. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
68. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
76. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
77. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
78. One of the players on the line of scrimmage.
80. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
81. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
82. A chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients).
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
2. Of or related to or derived from oats.
3. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
4. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
5. Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981).
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. The capital and largest city of Mozambique.
8. Antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
9. A light clear metallic sound as of a small bell.
10. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
11. Small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
13. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
14. Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
23. A rounded projection or protuberance.
25. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
27. A midwestern state in north central United States.
31. Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953).
32. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
33. The mistake of not following suit when able to do so.
35. Rounded like an egg.
36. The branch of biology that studies plants.
37. Wood of a pecan tree.
40. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
41. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
44. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
47. A popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain.
49. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
55. Spider monkeys.
56. An uproarious party.
57. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
60. A telegram sent abroad.
62. The basic unit of money in Albania.
63. Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras.
66. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
67. 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.
69. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
70. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
72. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
74. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
75. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
79. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.

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