Crossword Puzzle Number 3272 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. Build up to a level by depositing sediment.
11. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Hormone secreted by the corpus luteum during the last days of pregnancy.
17. Especially one side of a leaf.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned.
20. Being seven more than fifty.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
24. A musician who plays the oboe.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
28. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
30. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
34. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
35. (informal) Exceptionally good.
38. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
39. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
42. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
43. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
44. A festival featuring African-American culture.
46. A state in midwestern United States.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
54. The capital and largest city of Iran.
57. The time of day immediately following sunset.
59. In an unnatural eery manner.
61. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
62. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
64. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
65. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
69. Difficult to penetrate.
72. Related to or characteristic of or written in Amharic.
74. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
77. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
78. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
81. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
82. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
83. Excessive size.
84. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.

DOWN

1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
5. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
6. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
7. Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent.
8. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
9. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
10. Provide with a coating, as of chocolates.
11. Great coolness and composure under strain.
12. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
13. Armor plate that protects the chest.
14. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
22. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
29. Largest known toad species.
31. An old Scottish coin of little value.
32. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
33. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
36. At full speed.
37. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
40. A vigorous blow.
41. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
45. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
47. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
50. Prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976).
52. United States economist (born in the Netherlands) (1910-1985).
53. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
55. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
56. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
58. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
60. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
63. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
66. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
67. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
68. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
70. South African term for `boss'.
71. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
73. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
76. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
79. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
80. Being one more than one.

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