Crossword Puzzle Number 3040 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
4. Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910).
11. Noisy talk.
15. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
16. A city in central Texas.
17. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
18. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
19. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
20. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
21. Occurring every day of the week except Sunday (and sometimes Saturday).
23. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
25. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
27. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A desert in southern Israel.
34. A farewell remark.
37. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known a Iraq.
40. Plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks.
43. Black tropical American cuckoo.
44. Used of a single unit or thing.
45. A common cyst of the skin.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language.
48. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
50. A genus of Indriidae.
53. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
54. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
57. (British) "use your noddle".
59. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
63. Tropical Asian starlings.
64. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
66. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
70. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
71. Advance evidence for.
75. A humorous anecdote or remark.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
80. Herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers.
81. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.

DOWN

1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
3. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
4. After the expected or usual time.
5. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
6. Of or relating to Libya or its people.
7. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
8. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
9. A gene that causes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells.
10. An affirmative.
11. The capital of Cameroon.
12. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
13. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
14. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
22. From the kapok tree.
24. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
26. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
28. Being seven more than fifty.
30. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
32. The act of refusing a request.
33. Gum-like substance from the sapodilla.
35. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
36. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
38. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
39. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
41. Squash bugs.
42. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
47. News that updates your information v 1.
49. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
51. Green foliage.
52. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
55. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
56. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
58. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
60. A long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall).
61. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
62. Sour or bitter in taste.
65. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
69. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
72. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
73. A light touch or stroke.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.

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