Crossword Puzzle Number 6238 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. Exhibiting self-importance.
12. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
15. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
16. Any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods.
17. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
18. Tire excessively.
20. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
22. An antifungal agent usually administered in the form of a nitrate (trade name Monistat).
23. A soft silvery metallic element.
25. Heal or recover.
26. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
27. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
29. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
31. A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects.
33. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread.
40. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
44. A Nilotic language.
46. Small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits.
49. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
51. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
52. Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement.
54. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
56. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
60. Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
63. Black tropical American cuckoo.
68. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
72. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
73. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
75. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
76. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
77. A long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat.
80. Irritate or vex.
81. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
82. Or or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism.
83. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.

DOWN

1. A benign tumor composed of muscle tissue.
2. An act of gracious kindness.
3. Make amendments to.
4. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
5. Small genus of Australian shrubs or trees.
6. A loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion.
7. Be noisy with activity.
8. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
9. (informal) Someone whose style is out of fashion.
10. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
11. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
12. (in various religions) The world of the dead.
13. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
14. The basic unit of money in Iran.
19. A genus of Laridae.
21. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
24. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
28. Wool of the alpaca.
30. A radioactive transuranic element.
32. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
34. An unwholesome atmosphere.
35. Of or relating to coitus or copulation.
37. Very dark black.
38. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
43. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
45. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. A Loloish language.
48. Half the width of an em.
50. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
55. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
58. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
59. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
61. Candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers.
62. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
64. A quantity of no importance.
65. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
66. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
67. Similar or related in quality or character.
69. A sudden short attack.
70. Suggestive of the supernatural.
71. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
74. The sign language used in the United States.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
79. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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