Crossword Puzzle Number 4912 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Adopted in order to deceive.
5. Any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon.
12. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
15. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
16. A lack of vitality.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
19. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
20. 5 khoums equal 1 ouguiya.
22. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church).
28. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
31. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
33. Type genus of the Majidae.
37. Make amends for.
40. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
41. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
44. The angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself.
47. The upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities.
49. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
50. A decree that prohibits something.
51. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
52. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
55. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
56. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
61. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
65. A drip made of stone.
68. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. Type genus of the family Triopidae.
73. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
74. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
75. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
77. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
78. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
79. Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
2. A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.
3. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
4. 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.
5. By accident.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
8. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
9. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
10. Being one more than one.
11. Large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area.
12. Little known Kamarupan languages.
13. Praise, glorify, or honor.
14. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
21. An abbreviation for `hazardous material' used on warning signs.
23. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
25. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
27. 16 ounces.
29. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
30. City in Sudan.
32. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
34. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
35. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
36. Make amendments to.
38. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
42. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. Being nine more than ninety.
48. A famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813).
53. The state of owing money.
54. Wild and menacing.
57. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
58. A quantity of no importance.
59. Slices of bread that have been toasted.
60. Intelligence derived from non-communications electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources).
62. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
66. Look at with amorous intentions.
67. Using speech rather than writing.
71. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
72. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
76. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

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