Crossword Puzzle Number 6285 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
5. A highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
16. A standard or typical example.
17. The month following February and preceding April.
18. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
19. A herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves.
20. Jordan's port.
22. Broadcast via television.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. The bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint.
36. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
39. Offering fun and gaiety.
41. Garlic mayonnaise.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
45. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
46. A small or moderate or token amount.
49. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
52. Morning glory.
53. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals.
54. (law) A formal objection to an opponent's pleadings.
56. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
57. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
64. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
68. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
70. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
71. Conducive to peace.
74. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
75. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
76. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
78. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
79. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
80. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
2. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
3. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
4. Of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
5. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
6. Type genus of the Apidae.
7. A formation of people or things one beside another.
8. (Sumerian) Sun god.
9. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
10. The square of a body of any size of type.
11. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
21. 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.
23. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
25. The products of human creativity.
28. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
29. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
31. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
33. Small goat antelope with small conical horns.
34. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
35. A military dictatorship in North Africa on the Mediterranean.
37. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
38. Any location known for vice and corruption.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
44. A genus of European owls.
47. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.
48. Type genus of the Coraciidae.
50. Not treated with lead.
51. Obvious and dull.
55. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
58. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
59. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
61. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956).
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
65. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
66. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
67. A very light brown.
69. Fallow deer.
72. A unit of pressure.
73. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
77. Being nine more than forty.

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