Crossword Puzzle Number 3852 (Medium Grid)

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1. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
4. Of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
12. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
17. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
20. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
21. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
22. American Revolutionary leader (born in Prussia) who trained the troops under George Washington (1730-1794).
24. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
25. British informal term.
26. A stock or supply of foods.
28. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element.
30. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
32. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
35. The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).
38. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
39. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
43. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
45. Start abruptly.
46. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
48. Virus parasitic in bacteria.
50. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
51. A final crushing defeat.
53. Being ten more than eighty.
54. The cry made by sheep.
55. Type genus of the Anatidae.
56. A member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria.
59. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704).
61. In addition.
63. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
74. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
75. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
76. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
78. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
79. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
80. A great raja.
81. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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1. A large number or amount.
2. Cry plaintively.
3. A desert in southern Israel.
4. Jordan's port.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
9. A state in midwestern United States.
10. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
11. A category in some early taxonomies.
12. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
13. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
14. Act together, as of organisms.
19. An artful or simulated semblance.
23. Half the width of an em.
27. Of or on or relating to the seashore.
29. United States baseball player (born 1925).
31. A thick and heavy shoe.
33. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
34. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
36. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
37. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
40. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
41. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
42. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
44. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
47. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
49. Praise, glorify, or honor.
52. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
57. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
58. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
60. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. In bed.
65. A sudden short attack.
66. (Roman mythology) God of love.
67. The basic unit of money in Peru.
68. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
69. A Loloish language.
72. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
73. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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