Crossword Puzzle Number 4008 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. Hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment.
11. Any competition.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. An amine containing the double bond linkage -C=C-N-.
17. Little known Kamarupan languages.
18. How long something has existed.
19. Annual and perennial herbs of damp habitats.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. (printing) A short line at the end of the main strokes of a character.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. Inflammation of the ileum.
26. A port city in northwestern France (in Brittany).
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.
31. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
32. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
33. Any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago.
37. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
41. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
42. A French abbot.
44. 10 grams.
45. The month following July and preceding September.
46. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
50. A thrusting blow with a knife.
52. Advanced in years.
54. To that.
56. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
58. A primeval personification of air and breath.
59. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
60. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
63. Squash bugs.
66. God of the Underworld.
70. The cry made by sheep.
71. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
74. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
78. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
79. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
80. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.

DOWN

1. By bad luck.
2. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
3. Sour or bitter in taste.
4. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
5. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
6. An Indic language.
7. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
8. The extreme end of something.
9. Remove the pins from.
10. (South African) An ear of corn.
11. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
12. Make less active or intense.
13. Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras.
14. Remove from memory or existence.
22. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
25. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
27. Marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds.
28. One million periods per second.
30. A detective who follows a trail.
34. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
35. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
36. Any of various units of capacity.
38. (of animals) Fully developed.
39. A Nilotic language.
40. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
43. English monk and scholar (672-735).
47. Lacking gonads.
48. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
49. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
51. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. Raise in a relief.
57. Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574).
61. Not widely known.
62. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
64. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
65. A primeval personification of air and breath.
67. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
68. A manner of performance.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
72. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Being nine more than ninety.

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