Crossword Puzzle Number 3159 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A man who serves as a sailor.
4. A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes.
12. A humorous anecdote or remark.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
18. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
19. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Mix up or confuse.
24. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
27. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
29. A hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for.
37. Made warm or hot.
39. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. A large fleet.
41. Similar or related in quality or character.
42. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
43. Witnessed at first hand.
44. Informal terms for a mother.
46. Half the width of an em.
49. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
51. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression.
52. A doctor's degree in religion.
53. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
56. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
59. (biology) Having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk.
62. In addition.
65. A region of northeastern Italy on the Adriatic.
69. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
73. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Of or relating to or characteristic of a vicar.
77. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
78. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
79. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
80. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. (of a fluid) Having been propelled about in flying drops or masses.
5. Employed in accomplishing something.
6. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
7. (Scandinavian folklore) A supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains v 1.
8. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
9. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
10. Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain.
11. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
12. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
20. An appearance of reflected light.
23. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
25. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
26. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
28. A woman's abbreviated two-piece bathing suit.
30. Read anew.
31. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
32. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
33. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
34. A motley assortment of things.
35. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
36. (Judaism) A chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. An honorary arts degree.
47. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
48. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
50. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
54. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
55. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
57. State in northeastern India.
58. A pass between mountain peaks.
60. Being eight more than fifty.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
64. Type genus of the Amiidae.
66. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
67. The content of cognition.
68. The sixth month of the civil year.
70. X-ray picture of the kidneys and ureters after injection of a radiopaque dye.
71. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
72. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.

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