Crossword Puzzle Number 2088 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. Round gourd of the calabash tree.
12. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
15. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
16. Aroused or activated.
17. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
19. Worship given to God alone.
20. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
22. Be present in.
24. Look at with amorous intentions.
26. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
27. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. Being nine more than ninety.
31. When two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot the results is called `craps' or `snake eyes'.
34. Of or relating to near the ear.
38. Found off the West Indies and Florida.
41. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
44. The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
45. An expression of greeting.
46. Produced by or subjected to forcing.
48. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
50. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
52. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
55. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
58. Produced by a manufacturing process.
59. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
62. Ark shells.
65. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
70. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. Steering mechanism for a vessel.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
78. God of the Underworld.
79. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
80. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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1. Make less visible or unclear.
2. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
3. French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
5. Distant in either space or time.
6. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
7. A city in northeastern Ohio.
8. Of a light grayish-brown color n.
9. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
10. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
11. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
12. Fallow deer.
13. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
14. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
21. Choose and follow.
23. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
25. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
28. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
32. To an ample degree or in an ample manner.
33. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
35. Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position.
36. A state in midwestern United States.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. Regularly spaced in time.
40. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
42. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
49. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. An herb with milky juice.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. Relatively hard durable timber from the Queen's crape myrtle.
57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
60. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
61. Jordan's port.
63. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
64. Not agitated.
66. Using speech rather than writing.
67. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
68. In bed.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
71. A rapid bustling commotion.
72. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
76. Half the width of an em.

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