Crossword Puzzle Number 3004 (Medium Grid)

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1. Uttering in an irritated tone.
5. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
12. Lacking self-confidence.
15. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
16. Italian painter (1696-1770).
17. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
20. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
21. Take in solid food.
22. Characterized by friendship and good will.
24. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
26. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
32. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
35. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
38. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
40. Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases.
41. Informal terms for a meal.
44. (nautical) Situated at or toward the bow of a vessel.
45. 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.
47. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
48. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
49. A message that helps you remember something.
52. The superior of a group of nuns.
54. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
55. A slender double-reed instrument.
58. On or toward the lee.
59. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
61. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
62. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
63. Obvious and dull.
68. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
74. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
76. A light touch or stroke.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. God of the earth.
81. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
82. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
83. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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1. Avatar of Vishnu.
2. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
3. Large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind.
4. Easily calmed or pacified.
5. A drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria.
6. Being one more than fifty.
7. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
8. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
9. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
10. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
11. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
12. An advantageous purchase.
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
19. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
27. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
28. The grasses.
30. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
33. United States composer (born in France) whose music combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques (1883-1965).
34. Blood-sucking African fly.
36. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
37. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
39. Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap.
42. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
43. A state in north central United States.
46. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
50. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
51. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
53. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
56. The cry made by sheep.
57. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
60. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
64. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
65. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
66. Small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail.
67. Baby bed with high sides.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. In bed.
71. A small cake leavened with yeast.
73. An accountant certified by the state.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
79. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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