Crossword Puzzle Number 3341 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
11. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. Aromatic Eurasian perennial.
17. Using speech rather than writing.
18. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
19. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
20. A beautiful and graceful girl.
21. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
22. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
24. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
26. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
28. The crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail.
32. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
35. 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).
38. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
40. Used of persons.
43. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
45. Noisy talk.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
48. French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987).
52. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
54. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
55. Made warm or hot.
56. Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.
62. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
63. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
64. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
68. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
72. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
74. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
75. God of death.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
80. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
81. An informal term for a father.

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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
3. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
4. Omnivorous mammal of Central and South America.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
7. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
8. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
9. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
10. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
11. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
12. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
13. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
14. English essayist (1775-1834).
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. Plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped gray and green and white warty rinds.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
33. Provide with a new seat, as of a chair.
34. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
36. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
37. A discrete unit of living matter.
39. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. In some classifications.
44. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
49. Being nine more than ninety.
50. A country on the island of Dominica.
51. Silver-coated candy bead for decorating cakes.
53. (British) An old shabby movie theater.
57. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
58. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
59. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
60. State in northeastern India.
61. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
65. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
66. A genus of Mustelidae.
67. Deeply moved.
69. The sixth month of the civil year.
70. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
71. In bed.
73. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
78. A state in the Rocky Mountains.

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