Crossword Puzzle Number 3806 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Black tropical American cuckoo.
4. Support oneself.
11. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
16. A handsaw intended for use by two people.
17. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
18. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
20. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
21. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
22. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
26. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
27. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
29. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
31. Avatar of Vishnu.
35. An informal term for a father.
37. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
44. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
49. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
51. Diffusing warmth and friendliness.
54. (Greek mythology) A maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.
57. A member of a legation.
58. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. A short sleep (usually not in bed).
62. New Zealand conifer.
64. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
65. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
69. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
70. A Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo.
74. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
75. An intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs.
77. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
78. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
79. Meteorology of the total extent of the atmosphere.
80. The chance to speak.

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1. On, to, or at the top.
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
4. The compass point midway between south and west.
5. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
6. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
7. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
8. A small island.
9. A deep bow.
10. Being one more than one.
11. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.
12. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
13. A city in northern India.
14. A piece of thin and flexible sheet metal.
19. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
23. Towards the side away from the wind.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
28. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. The capital of Morocco.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. The commonest type of solidified lava.
34. The principal dish of a meal.
36. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
41. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
42. The cry made by sheep.
45. Jordan's port.
46. An audiotape recording of sound.
48. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
50. Kauri pine.
52. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
53. A city in north central Morocco.
55. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
56. Of or at or relating to an anode.
59. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
61. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
63. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
66. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
67. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
68. A polite name for any woman.
71. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
72. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
73. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
76. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.

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