Crossword Puzzle Number 997 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
4. A surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel.
12. Not reflecting light.
15. Not in good physical or mental health.
16. Rule against.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay.
20. The superior of an abbey of monks.
21. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
22. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
23. Trace the shape of.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. An expression of greeting.
32. An associate degree in nursing.
33. An ordered reference standard.
37. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
42. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
43. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
48. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
50. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
51. (used in combination) Dominated or obsessed by.
53. A town in north central Oklahoma.
55. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
56. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. Affect with wonder.
65. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. An island of central Hawaii.
72. Philippine tree similar to the breadfruit tree bearing edible fruit.
74. Relating to or accompanying birth.
76. Long and light rowing boat.
77. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
78. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
80. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
81. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
82. Officially rebuked or found blameworthy.
83. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.

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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
4. Small genus of shrubs and small trees of New Zealand.
5. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
6. A state in New England.
7. Using speech rather than writing.
8. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
9. United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913).
10. With a forward motion.
11. Vietnamese New Year.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
30. Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees of United States to Antilles and eastern Asia to the Himalaya.
34. Jordan's port.
35. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
36. A mournful poem.
38. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
39. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
40. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
41. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
44. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
47. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
49. A state in New England.
52. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
54. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
57. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
59. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
60. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
62. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
63. The basic unit of money in Zaire.
64. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
66. Very light colored.
67. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
68. A fit of shivering.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
70. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
73. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
75. How long something has existed.
79. A state in east central United States.

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