Crossword Puzzle Number 3 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The unit of frequency.
4. (of a cartridge) Fired by striking the rim of the base.
11. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
15. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
16. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
17. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
18. Sour or bitter in taste.
20. God of wealth and love.
21. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
22. Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain.
24. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
26. The Spanish Navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719).
28. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
30. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness.
45. A gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws.
48. Not only so, but.
50. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
51. Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art.
53. The nail at the end of a toe.
55. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
57. The small projection of a mammary gland.
58. A Russian river.
60. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
62. Type genus of the Nepidae.
63. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
67. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
71. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
72. French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917).
75. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. A large double-edged broadsword.
79. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
80. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
81. Sometimes placed in genus Scilla.
82. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

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1. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
2. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
3. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
4. Large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods.
5. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
6. Characteristic of a mob.
7. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
8. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
9. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
10. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. Cut the head of.
12. The eighth month of the civil year.
13. Weapons considered collectively.
14. Mentally healthy.
19. Follower of Rastafarianism.
23. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
29. Considerate and solicitous care.
31. A friendly nation.
32. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
33. Cause to run off the tracks.
34. A genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches).
36. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
37. A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
39. (botany) Especially of leaves.
41. One thousandth of a second.
42. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
44. Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work).
46. Provide with a coating, as of chocolates.
47. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
49. A fellow female member of a youth gang.
52. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
54. Enter into a list of prospective jurors.
59. All the loaves of bread baked at the same time.
61. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
64. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
65. A lyric poet.
66. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
68. God of fire.
69. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
70. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
73. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
74. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
78. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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