Crossword Puzzle Number 3456 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
4. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
12. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
15. Make or shape as with an axe.
16. Smallest guenon monkey.
17. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
18. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
19. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
20. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
22. A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed.
24. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
25. Salt pork from the back of a hog carcass.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
29. Poisonous herbs.
34. Type genus of the Pipridae containing the typical manakins.
37. Before noon.
39. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
40. The content of cognition.
41. A superior grade of black tea.
44. The dull explosive noise made by an engine.
45. Rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel.
48. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
49. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
50. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. In or of the present month.
53. The habitation of wild animals.
55. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
59. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
60. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
63. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
66. Be earlier in time.
70. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
71. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
74. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
75. A primeval personification of air and breath.
76. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
77. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
78. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
79. Submerged freshwater perennials.
80. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
2. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
3. A week chirping sound as of a small bird v 1.
4. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
5. The month following February and preceding April.
6. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
7. A small piece of cloth.
8. Port city in northwest Portugal.
9. A male human offspring.
10. Being one more than one.
11. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
12. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
13. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
14. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
21. A boat for communication between ship and shore.
23. (anatomy) Opposite to or away from the mouth.
26. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
27. Half the width of an em.
30. Attempting to get personal recognition for yourself (especially by unacceptable means).
31. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
32. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
33. Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736).
35. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
36. A persistently annoying person.
38. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
42. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
43. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
46. A state in midwestern United States.
47. A region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910.
54. Coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude.
56. Of or like a cecum.
57. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
58. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
61. Type genus of the Bramidae.
62. A rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum.
64. Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus.
65. Type genus of the Percidae.
67. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
68. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. A French abbot.
72. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
73. Someone who is morally reprehensible.

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