Crossword Puzzle Number 6288 (Medium Grid)

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1. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
5. French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.
16. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
17. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
18. Using speech rather than writing.
19. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
20. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
21. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly.
23. The capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
25. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
26. Pass by, as of time.
27. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Before noon.
32. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
36. A character set that includes letters.
42. An oral poliovirus vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
43. The occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity.
45. English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731).
46. Resembling a berry.
48. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
50. A state in southeastern United States.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
53. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
56. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
58. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
60. Australian clover fern.
61. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
63. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
64. Using more words than necessary.
68. An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. A palace and fortress built in Granada by the Moslems in the Middle Ages.
77. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
78. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. The cry made by sheep.
81. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
82. City in central Iran.
83. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.

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1. A small cave (usually with attractive features).
2. The basic unit of money on Malta.
3. With rapid movements.
4. (Old Testament) Samson's Philistine mistress who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength.
5. A local computer network for communication between computers.
6. American Revolutionary patriot.
7. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits.
8. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
9. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
10. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
11. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
12. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
13. Offering fun and gaiety.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
24. A rounded projection or protuberance.
28. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
30. Wool of the alpaca.
34. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
35. Echo repeatedly, echo again and again.
37. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
38. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
39. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
40. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
41. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
44. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.
47. Any system of principles or beliefs.
49. Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed.
54. An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.
55. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
57. United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914).
59. An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate.
62. Squash bugs.
65. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
66. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
67. God of death.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. Toward the mouth or oral region.
72. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
75. A master's degree in education.
76. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.

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