Crossword Puzzle Number 7224 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
4. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
16. Pearl oysters.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A human being.
20. Relieve from military service.
21. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
22. Fastened with a pin or staple.
24. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
25. Lower in esteem.
27. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
33. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
34. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
36. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
40. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
44. Founder of Buddhism.
45. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
47. One millionth of a gram.
48. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
49. Indigo bush.
51. Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919).
53. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
55. Offering little or no hope.
57. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
58. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
61. Work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes.
63. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
66. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
68. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
69. (sometimes used ironically) A man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs).
70. Ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick.
75. (poetic) "the orient sun" n 1.
77. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
78. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
79. Perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers.
82. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
83. The fatty flesh of eel.
84. The state of a serf.
85. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
2. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. Greek god of light.
5. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
8. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
9. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
10. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
11. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. By bad luck.
14. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
19. Spaced apart.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. Roman lyric poet remembered for his love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC).
30. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
32. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
35. A friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind.
37. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ammine (an inorganic coordination compound of ammonia and a metallic salt).
38. Of or involving the rectum.
39. A member of the Moslem dynasty that ruled India until 1857.
41. The sixth month of the civil year.
42. A slight amount or degree of difference.
43. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Essential equal to suborder Myomorpha with the Dipodidae excluded.
54. Affect with wonder.
56. A cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids.
59. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
60. The back of a saddle seat.
62. Offering fun and gaiety.
64. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
65. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
67. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
71. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
72. A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward.
73. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
74. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
76. An awkward stupid person.
80. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
81. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.

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