Crossword Puzzle Number 955 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.
4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
12. The sign language used in the United States.
15. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
16. In your mind.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
20. The fur of an otter.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
23. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
25. Any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes.
28. Chief port of Yemen.
30. 17th and 18th-century movement in the German Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion.
32. A genus of Ploceidae.
36. The square of a body of any size of type.
37. A state in midwestern United States.
39. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
41. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
43. The residue that remains when something is burned.
45. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
50. Jordan's port.
52. Not only so, but.
54. In bed.
56. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
58. Make amends for.
59. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
60. 1/10 gram.
61. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
63. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
65. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
67. Of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him.
71. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
74. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
75. A river in the east central United States.
78. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
79. German bacteriologist who found a `magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915).
80. A French abbot.
81. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
82. Fill with gas or air.
83. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.

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1. A city in Tuscany.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. A member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California.
4. Pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia.
5. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
6. A state in east central United States.
7. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
8. Tree of the genus Catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods.
9. Of or being the lowest female voice.
10. (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades.
11. A port in southwestern Scotland.
12. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
24. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
26. An honorary degree in science.
27. Before noon.
29. A doctor's degree in religion.
31. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
33. The sixth month of the civil year.
34. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
35. Philippine tree similar to the breadfruit tree bearing edible fruit.
38. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
40. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
47. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
51. God of love and erotic desire.
53. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.
55. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. The capital of Nationalist China.
62. An exhibition of cowboy skills.
64. Order by virtue of superior authority.
66. Jordan's port.
68. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
69. Hang loosely or laxly.
70. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
72. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
73. The nest of a squirrel.
76. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
77. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.

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