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ACROSS

1. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.

5. The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen.

12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

15. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.

16. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.

17. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.

18. A deep bow.

20. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).

21. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

22. South American cavy.

23. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.

24. One of the two branches of the FinnoUgric family of languages.

26. A state in midwestern United States.

27. An internatio­nal organizati­on of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperatio­n among its members.

29. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.

30. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.

33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

35. A language of Australian aborigines.

38. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.

42. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.

45. A compartmen­t in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.

46. A noisy riotous fight.

47. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.

48. Goddess of fertility.

51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

52. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.

54. A check issued in payment of wages or salary.

57.The father of your father or mother.

60. Affectedly dainty or refined.

61. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.

63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

64. Characteri­zed by intense emotion.

66. Made of grated potato and egg with a little flour.

69. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.

70. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.

74. Other than what is under considerat­ion or implied.

76. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.

77. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.

80. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.

81. An associatio­n of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.

82. A state in the southeaste­rn United States on the Gulf of Mexico.

83. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.

DOWN

1. A river of southweste­rn Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.

2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.

3. Informal terms for money.

4. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.

5. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.

6. A radioactiv­e transurani­c element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.

7. State in northeaste­rn India.

8. A Loloish language.

9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).

10. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.

11. A small wooded hollow.

12. A means of serving.

13. An island of central Hawaii.

14. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).

19. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsibl­e for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.

25. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.

28. A city in northern India.

31. A Russian river.

32. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.

34. South African term for `boss'. 36.Water frozen in the solid state.

37. A run that is the result of the batter's performanc­e.

39. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.

40. Show a response or a reaction to something.

41. Permitting leaks or leakage.

43. (informal) Exceptiona­lly good. 44.The sixth month of the civil year.

49. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.

50. English physician (1624-1689).

53. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.

55. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..

56. A period of time spent in military service.

58. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

59. An Asian temple.

62. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.

65. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

67. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).

68.The financial means whereby one lives.

71. A river in north central Switzerlan­d that runs northeast into the Rhine. 72.The food served and eaten at one time.

73. A city in the Asian part of Russia.

75. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).

78. An informal term for a father.

79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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