Crossword Puzzle Number 3222 (Medium Grid)

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1. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
5. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
12. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
15. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
16. An antibiotic (a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin)) used to treat bacterial infections.
17. (informal) Of the highest quality.
18. A major god.
19. Liquid excretory product.
20. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
22. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
26. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
27. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
28. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
30. An informal term for a father.
31. Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.
34. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
40. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
44. A caress with the lips.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. The quantity contained in a keg.
50. A genus of Indriidae.
52. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
55. A rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum.
56. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
57. In bed.
58. A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
60. Any plant of the genus Inula.
61. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
62. 10 grams.
66. English architect (1869-1944).
70. Proboscis worms.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. A curved oriental saber.
77. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
78. A kind of person.
79. (Italian cookery) Squid prepared as food.
80. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
81. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
82. Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity).
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
2. A book of the New Testament.
3. A small vessel for travel on water.
4. Take off a hook.
5. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Of or relating to a wedding.
8. An electrically charged particle.
9. A studio especially for an artist or designer.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
12. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
13. (archaic) Of persons.
14. A republic in eastern Africa.
21. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
23. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
25. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
29. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
32. United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938).
33. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
35. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
38. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
41. Jordan's port.
42. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
43. Advanced in years.
45. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
47. Widely known and esteemed.
48. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
51. Be iridescent.
53. Mongolian wild ass.
54. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
59. A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line.
63. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
67. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
68. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
69. Mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake.
71. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
72. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
73. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
76. The month following February and preceding April.

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