Crossword Puzzle Number 4060 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information.
5. The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
15. A large quantity of written matter.
16. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
17. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
19. Deprived of parents by death or desertion.
20. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
21. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
28. Lower in esteem.
30. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
33. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
37. A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force.
38. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
42. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
43. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
46. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
47. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
49. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
52. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
54. Of or relating to apnea.
56. Of or relating to a septum.
58. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
59. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
62. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
65. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
66. Imperial moths.
70. Any of several compounds of barium.
73. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
75. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
76. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
77. An inability to sleep.
79. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
80. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. Used of a single unit or thing.

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1. A native or inhabitant of Great Britain.
2. Not only so, but.
3. Flat and uninspiring.
4. Cause to darken.
5. A permanent council of the United Nations.
6. 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.
7. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
8. Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit.
9. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
10. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
11. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
12. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
13. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
14. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
23. A flexible container with a single opening.
26. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
27. Casserole of eggplant and ground lamb with onion and tomatoes bound with white sauce and beaten eggs.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).
32. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
36. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
39. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
40. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
41. Any plant of the genus Erica.
44. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
45. (informal) Roused to anger.
48. Any long and tedious address or recital.
50. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
51. Half the width of an em.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
60. A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms.
61. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
63. God of love and erotic desire.
64. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
67. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
68. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
69. Mentally healthy.
71. The extreme end of something.
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
74. Black tropical American cuckoo.
78. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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