Crossword Puzzle Number 581 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A persistently annoying person.
5. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. Of or relating to near the ear.
16. Relating to or characterized by or having nodules.
17. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
18. Type genus of the Ranidae.
19. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
20. Make less active or intense.
22. A branch of the Tai languages.
24. A gay festivity.
26. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
29. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
30. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
32. Filled with a great quantity.
36. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
38. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
41. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain.
45. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
46. A town in southern Turkey.
49. Lower in esteem.
51. A master's degree in religion.
52. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
54. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
57. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
58. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
60. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
62. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
66. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
70. Using speech rather than writing.
72. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
73. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
75. An oil port in southern Iraq.
77. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
78. A French abbot.
79. Capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China.
81. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
82. Set down according to a plan.
83. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Outer bark of the cork oak.
2. A state in the western United States.
3. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
4. Large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic.
5. Ludicrously odd.
6. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
7. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
8. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
9. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
12. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
13. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
14. American novelist (1909-1955).
21. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
23. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
25. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
27. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
28. 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.
31. Unable to see.
33. An uproarious party.
34. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
35. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
37. Noisy talk.
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
40. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
42. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
43. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
44. Type genus of the Amiidae.
47. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
48. A great raja.
50. Obvious and dull.
53. A white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers.
56. The eleventh month of the civil year.
59. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
61. True gudgeons.
63. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956).
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
67. A desert in central Asia.
68. In bed.
69. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
71. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
74. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
80. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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