Crossword Puzzle Number 3008 (Medium Grid)

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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed.
12. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. Sect of Orthodox Jews who follow the Mosaic Law strictly.
17. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
18. A strong emotion.
19. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
20. Out of fashion.
22. A genus of Sterninae.
24. Lack of sophistication or worldliness.
26. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
28. Positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
33. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
35. A telegram sent abroad.
39. United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905- ).
42. Before noon.
44. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
45. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
50. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
51. Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.
53. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
55. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
56. Fiddler crabs.
59. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
62. Type genus of the Rubiaceae.
64. Any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers.
69. A large fleet.
73. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
74. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
77. Having help.
78. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
79. Overly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality.
81. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
82. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
83. Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
84. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).

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1. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
2. Channel into a new direction.
3. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
4. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
5. An island of central Hawaii.
6. The sign language used in the United States.
7. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
8. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
9. Chief port of Yemen.
10. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
11. (archaic) Relying on medical quackery.
12. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
13. Loose temporary stitches.
14. Any system of principles or beliefs.
21. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
23. Show a response or a reaction to something.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
30. A genus of fern sometimes placed in its own family Azollaceae.
32. Make secure by lashing.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. Found along western Atlantic coast.
37. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
38. Any plant of the genus Erica.
40. 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.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
47. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
49. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
52. (Welsh) Underworld god.
54. A member of an ancient people living east of Babylonia as early as 4000 BC.
57. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
58. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
60. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
61. A nitrogenous substance found in mucous secretions.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
67. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
68. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
70. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
71. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
72. The sixth month of the civil year.
75. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
80. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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