Crossword Puzzle Number 6248 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A state of agitated irritation.
5. A series of chirps.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
16. Any member of the Amniota.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
20. Arousing or provoking laughter.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
24. A gutter in a roof.
26. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
27. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
30. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
31. A block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling.
35. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. The condition of having no arms.
41. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
45. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere.
46. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
49. A circular segment of a curve.
50. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
51. Type genus of the Nepidae.
53. Being two more than fifty.
54. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
56. A person forced to flee from home or country.
57. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. A tight-fitting headdress.
64. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
69. A detested person.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. Lacking spirit or liveliness.
77. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
78. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
79. Illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds.
80. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
81. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
82. A used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads.
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC.
2. Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy.
3. An iconic mental representation.
4. Clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures.
5. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
6. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
7. Give an incentive.
8. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
9. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
10. A city in central New York.
11. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
14. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
19. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
23. God of love and erotic desire.
25. An acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
32. Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection.
33. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
34. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
36. The ending of a series or sequence.
37. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
40. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
42. A large fleet.
43. A large quantity of written matter.
44. English monk and scholar (672-735).
47. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
48. A demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together.
52. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
55. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
58. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
61. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
63. Type genus of the Percidae.
65. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
68. A tight cluster of people or things.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
71. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. A French abbot.
75. (informal) Of the highest quality.
76. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.

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