Crossword Puzzle Number 6216 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
4. (of non-living objects) The state of being free of pathogenic organisms.
11. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
15. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
16. A person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land.
17. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. Pitching dangerously to one side.
21. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
23. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
25. Having a heading or course in a certain direction.
27. Away from the mouth or oral region.
28. Keep or maintain in unaltered condition.
31. A light touch or stroke.
32. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
36. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
40. Become gelatinous.
43. An informal debt instrument.
44. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
49. An executioner who beheads the condemned person.
54. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
59. In or of the present month.
62. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
64. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
68. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
72. A port city in southwestern Iran.
73. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. God of the earth.
78. A port city in western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.
80. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
81. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
82. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
83. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

DOWN

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
3. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
4. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
5. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
6. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
7. Of the common people of ancient Rome.
8. (literary) Spirited horse for state or war.
9. An electrically charged particle.
10. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. The fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear.
12. The eighth month of the civil year.
13. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
14. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
24. A genus of Ploceidae.
26. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
29. Disparaging terms for small people.
30. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
33. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
34. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
35. (informal) Of the highest quality.
37. A Nilotic language.
38. Treated with some kind of application.
39. Be or do something to a greater degree.
41. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
42. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
48. (combining form) Indicating radiation or radioactivity.
50. Not still wet.
51. A mercury-vapor lamp used in artificial sunray treatments.
52. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
53. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
56. A state in northwestern North America.
57. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
61. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
63. A particular environment or walk of life.
65. In bed.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. The complete duration of something.
69. A quantity of no importance.
70. Very dark black.
71. An informal term for a father.
74. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
75. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
79. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.

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