Crossword Puzzle Number 3043 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food.
11. A tight cluster of people or things.
15. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
16. A loss of will power.
17. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
18. (Welsh) Goddess famous for her beauty.
21. Dyed with henna.
23. Declare invalid.
24. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
31. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
33. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
36. The bill in a restaurant.
41. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
43. A son who has the same first name as his father.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. Adult female chicken.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. The highest level or degree attainable.
50. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
51. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
53. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
55. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
59. Collect or gather.
60. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
62. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
65. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
66. Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola.
68. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. (used especially of glances) Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.
76. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.
77. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
78. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
82. Of the blackest black.
83. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
84. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
85. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
3. A compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
4. A nation in northern North America.
5. Discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization, in psychoanalysis.
6. Representation of the cross on which Jesus died.
7. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. A festival featuring African-American culture.
12. Wife of Balder.
13. State of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior.
14. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
19. An associate degree in nursing.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A person forced to flee from home or country.
26. A native-born Israeli.
27. Transparent anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.
29. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
32. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
34. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
35. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
37. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
38. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
39. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
40. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
42. Dwell (archaic).
48. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
49. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
52. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
54. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
56. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
57. A warning against certain acts.
58. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
61. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
63. All the plant life in a particular region.
64. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
67. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
69. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
70. In bed.
71. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
74. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
75. An accountant certified by the state.
80. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
81. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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