Crossword Puzzle Number 6212 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of pressure.
4. An innocuous or inert medication.
11. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
15. Seed of a pea plant.
16. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
17. United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981).
18. A genus of Ploceidae.
20. Wood of a sumac.
21. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
22. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
24. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
26. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
27. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
29. A light informal meal.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
39. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
40. An accidental happening.
41. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
44. Power to control.
46. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
47. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
51. A quantity of no importance.
52. Wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography.
54. At right angles to the center line of a ship.
56. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
58. Small genus of chiefly American herbs.
60. Gather, as of as crops.
63. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
65. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
67. A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.
69. Explorer and United States naval officer.
72. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
74. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
82. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
83. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.

DOWN

1. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
2. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
3. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
4. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).
7. Argentinian cariama.
8. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
9. The cry made by sheep.
10. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
11. The state capital of Alaska.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
14. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
19. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
23. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
25. (Norse mythology) Giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom.
28. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
33. Daughter of Nehru who served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984).
34. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
36. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
37. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
38. Make amends for.
42. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
43. Up to the present time.
45. Place in a grave or tomb.
48. A self-righteous or sanctimonious person.
49. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
50. Soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters.
53. A yellow quartz.
55. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
57. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
59. A negative.
61. Fill with high spirits.
62. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
64. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
68. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
70. A sudden short attack.
71. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
73. The residue that remains when something is burned.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
79. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
80. A public promotion of some product or service.

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