Crossword Puzzle Number 3240 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
5. Capable of being tamed.
12. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
15. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
16. A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
17. The seventh and last day of the week.
18. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
20. A city in western Germany.
22. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
23. Extremely pleasing.
25. A city and port in northern Jutland.
28. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
31. Very dark black.
32. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. Sour or bitter in taste.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
44. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
45. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
47. Two items of the same kind.
49. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
50. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
52. Quickly and without warning.
54. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
55. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
56. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
57. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
58. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
60. In bed.
62. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
65. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
66. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
67. A Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
77. City in central Iran.
81. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
82. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
83. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
84. 10 grams.
85. Testacean rhizopods.
86. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.

DOWN

1. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. (informal) Of the highest quality.
7. The holy city of Shiite Muslims.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
10. A Russian river.
11. Half the width of an em.
12. A city in southern Finland.
13. (in Scotland) A child.
14. Having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. The superior of an abbey of monks.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
27. An involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear).
29. The longest river in England.
30. A port city in southwestern Iran.
33. Not enough.
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
37. God of wealth and love.
39. A native or inhabitant of Nubia.
41. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
42. Stopping short and refusing to go on.
43. The eighth month of the civil year.
46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
51. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
53. A genus of Ploceidae.
59. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. A small skullcap.
63. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
64. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
68. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
69. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
70. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
71. The content of cognition.
73. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
78. The products of human creativity.
79. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
80. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.

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