Crossword Puzzle Number 6430 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. Eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms.
12. An enclosed space.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
19. Called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation.
20. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
21. By bad luck.
23. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
25. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
38. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
41. Of little importance or influence or power.
43. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
45. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
47. Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone.
48. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
49. The bill in a restaurant.
52. A family of languages spoken by people scattered throughout central India.
55. The capital of Western Samoa.
57. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
60. A shade of blue tinged with green.
62. A quantity of no importance.
66. 3rd largest island in the world.
67. Having or using only one filament.
69. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
70. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
73. The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full.
74. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
75. Small Old and New World herons.
77. The month following February and preceding April.
78. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
79. Portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church.
80. Used of a single unit or thing.

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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
4. How long something has existed.
5. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
6. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
7. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
8. Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.
9. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
10. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
11. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
14. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
22. A river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico.
24. Call upon in supplication.
26. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. Appeal or request earnestly.
34. A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing).
36. An informal term for a father.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
40. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
44. A sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety.
46. A master's degree in business.
50. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
51. Ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail.
53. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
56. A member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in southwestern United States.
58. Held dear.
59. Excessive desire to acquire or possess more (esp material wealth) than one needs or deserves.
61. Characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity.
63. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
64. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
65. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
68. Fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
76. The fifth day of the week.

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