Crossword Puzzle Number 3850 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
5. (of plants or trees) Having the top or outer parts cut off.
11. God of love and erotic desire.
15. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
16. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
17. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
18. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
20. An informal term for a father.
21. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
22. (usually in the plural) Underpants worn by men.
23. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way.
24. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
25. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
27. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
28. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
31. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
34. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
41. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
42. In or of the present month.
45. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
46. A city in southern Finland.
49. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
52. Used of syllables.
54. Tolerant or lenient.
57. Small genus of succulent annual herbs found on sandy shores of North America and Europe.
58. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
61. Someone who bakes commercially.
64. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
66. A Hindu prince or king in India.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Make worse or less effective.
75. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
76. Someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
80. Water travel for pleasure.
81. Having undesirable or negative qualities.

DOWN

1. A game played with playing cards.
2. A drama set to music.
3. Of or like a cecum.
4. Of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak.
5. Being one more than fifty.
6. The probability of a specified outcome.
7. Seed of a pea plant.
8. A genus of Ploceidae.
9. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. A festival featuring African-American culture.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
14. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
19. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
26. Found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
36. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
37. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
39. Any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap.
40. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
43. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
44. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
47. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
48. The capital of Turkey.
50. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.
51. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
53. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
55. In an unnatural eery manner.
56. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
59. A low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
60. Very large red gum tree.
62. A French abbot.
63. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
65. Having relatively few calories.
67. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
73. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
74. A cgs unit of work or energy.
77. Half the width of an em.

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