Crossword Puzzle Number 3087 (Medium Grid)

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1. Not divisible by two.
4. Marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds.
12. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
15. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
16. An antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches.
17. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
18. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
19. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
20. (British) Your grandmother.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. A growth in strength or number or importance.
24. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
26. United States film maker (1897-1991).
29. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
30. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
32. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
37. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
40. Cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful.
41. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
43. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
44. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
45. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. At surface level.
49. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. An abundance of material possessions and resources.
54. Uninhibited United States actress (1903-1968).
56. The content of cognition.
57. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
60. United States film actor who played tough heroes (1907-1979).
61. The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech.
63. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
65. 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.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
76. A city in north central Nigeria.
77. A city in north central Morocco.
78. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
80. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
81. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
82. A great raja.
83. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.

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1. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
2. Made of fir or pine.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
5. Large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
8. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
9. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
10. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
11. A member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Ural mountains).
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Declare untrue.
23. The Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
25. (informal) Exceptionally good.
27. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
28. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
31. Confined to bed (by illness).
33. Gather, as of as crops.
34. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
35. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
36. Pull back or move away or backward.
38. With rapid movements.
39. On or toward the lee.
42. United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981).
48. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
50. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
51. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
53. Type genus of the Sciaenidae.
55. A festival featuring African-American culture.
58. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
59. A Mid-Atlantic state.
62. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
64. A state in New England.
66. In bed.
67. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
68. (Roman mythology) God of love.
69. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
70. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
71. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
74. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
75. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
79. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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