Crossword Puzzle Number 1288 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
4. Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
16. Inflammation of the vertebral column.
17. An informal term for a father.
18. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
19. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. Large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber.
23. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
25. One-hundredth of a right angle.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. In a weak and unconvincing manner.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
36. Before noon.
37. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
40. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
43. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
44. Being one more than fifty.
45. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
46. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
50. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
51. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
52. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
55. Of or like a cecum.
58. Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula.
60. Toward the mouth or oral region.
61. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. British philologist and writer (born in South Africa) (1892-1973).
64. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
66. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
68. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
71. Medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood.
73. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
75. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
78. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
79. (informal) Exceptionally good.
80. To that.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
2. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
3. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
4. A severe or trying experience.
5. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
8. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
9. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
10. A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire.
11. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
12. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
13. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. A minor match preceding the main event.
24. The superior of an abbey of monks.
26. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
27. A young woman making her debut into society.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
34. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
35. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
38. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
39. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
42. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
47. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
48. Having or resembling a stinger or barb.
49. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
53. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
54. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
56. Growing old.
57. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
59. A state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility.
63. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
65. A blind god.
67. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. Type genus of the Majidae.
72. Seed of a pea plant.
74. Remaining after all deductions.
76. A state in New England.
77. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.

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