Crossword Puzzle Number 6255 (Medium Grid)

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1. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
5. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
12. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
15. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
16. Flesh of a cod-like fish of European Atlantic waters.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
19. Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope.
20. A master's degree in business.
21. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
23. Not widely known.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Spider monkeys.
29. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
32. An organized body of related information.
34. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
37. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. Torn down and broken up.
44. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
45. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
46. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
47. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. Take in solid food.
52. Tropical American trees.
54. A motley assortment of things.
58. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
60. Coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood.
61. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
63. School of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith.
64. A city in southeastern South Korea.
65. A space that is contained within another space.
68. Of or relating to or near the nares.
72. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
73. Genus of large brown long-billed wading birds found in warm swampy regions of the Western Hemisphere.
76. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
77. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
78. An agent (physical or chemical) that inactivates or destroys viruses.
80. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
81. The month following April and preceding June.
82. Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943).
83. Not divisible by two.

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1. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
2. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
3. Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent.
4. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
5. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
6. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
7. An enzyme secreted in the digestive tract that catalyzes the breakdown of fats into individual fatty acids that can be absorbed into the bloodstream.
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
10. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
11. Cause to agonize.
12. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. A young woman making her debut into society.
25. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
28. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
30. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
31. A city in central Texas.
33. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
35. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
36. German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969).
39. An enclosed space.
40. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
42. (astronomy) The reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse.
43. A notable achievement.
48. An orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing.
49. A program for a race meeting.
53. A person forced to flee from home or country.
55. Divisible by two.
56. Someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
57. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
59. A deficiency of red blood cells.
62. At an earlier place.
66. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
67. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
69. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
70. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
71. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
74. Fiddler crabs.
75. Be seated.
79. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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