Crossword Puzzle Number 6388 (Medium Grid)

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36 37 38  39   40   41   42   
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78    79  80       81   
82    83         84   

ACROSS

1. An audiotape recording of sound.
4. Wasting time.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. (medical) An absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
19. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit.
20. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
21. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
23. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. Freetail bats.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen.
36. Remove gas from.
41. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
42. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
43. A learner who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study.
48. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929).
51. Marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
54. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
55. A Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer.
56. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
59. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
60. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
63. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
66. Any plant of the genus Erica.
69. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
72. Covered with paving material.
75. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
78. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
79. A public lecturer at certain universities.
81. A light touch or stroke.
82. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
83. Having development checked or reversed.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. One of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. Secured or held in place by tape.
4. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
5. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
6. The cause or intention underlying an action or situation esp in the phrase "the whys and wherefores".
7. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
8. A slow pace of running.
9. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
11. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
12. The closing section of a musical composition.
13. The act of scanning.
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
25. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
27. A doctor's degree in religion.
28. A state in New England.
29. Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria.
32. One of the common people.
33. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
34. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
35. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
37. Related on the mother's side.
38. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
39. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. The sacred city of Lamaism.
45. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
47. A motley assortment of things.
52. An appearance of reflected light.
57. A genus of Reduviidae.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
61. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
62. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
64. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
65. The yield from plants in a single growing season.
67. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
68. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
73. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
74. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
76. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
80. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.

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