Crossword Puzzle Number 6577 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
5. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
11. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
15. The highest level or degree attainable.
16. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
17. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
18. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
19. In or of a state of physical or nervous tension.
21. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
23. A copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient.
25. A unit of pressure.
26. Cast again.
27. A state in New England.
28. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
30. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
32. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
36. Salt pork from the back of a hog carcass.
42. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
43. Fallow deer.
44. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
45. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
47. Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968).
48. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
50. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
51. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
52. Australian wild horse.
54. A loss of will power.
57. A useful or valuable quality.
58. An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands.
61. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
62. The month following January and preceding March.
63. Related on the mother's side.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
68. United States playwright (1906-1963).
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
74. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
77. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
79. A light touch or stroke.
80. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
81. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
83. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
84. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
85. An island comprising the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
86. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.

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1. A workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding).
2. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
3. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
4. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
5. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
6. On or toward the lee.
7. Make numb or insensitive.
8. Read or interpret wrongly.
9. American novelist (1909-1955).
10. A state in New England.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. God of love and erotic desire.
13. A fabric made by knitting.
14. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
29. The closing section of a musical composition.
31. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
33. A promise.
34. Tropical African herbs.
35. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
37. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
38. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
41. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
46. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
49. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
53. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
55. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
56. Employed in accomplishing something.
59. Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.
60. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
64. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
66. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
67. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
69. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. A small cake leavened with yeast.
73. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
75. The residue that remains when something is burned.
76. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
82. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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