Crossword Puzzle Number 6507 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
4. Of or relating to the chest or thorax.
12. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. A skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton.
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
18. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
20. Squash bugs.
22. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
24. Shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training.
26. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
28. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
29. (trademark) A type of fiberboard.
32. A thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery.
36. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
37. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
39. Carry out or participate in an activity.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
44. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
48. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
50. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
52. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
53. In operation or operational.
54. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
56. A city of central China.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
62. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
64. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
66. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
71. State in northeastern India.
73. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
75. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
76. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
77. Tall tender clumping bamboos.
80. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
81. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
82. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
83. Type genus of the Nepidae.

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1. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
2. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
7. A twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven.
8. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
9. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
10. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
11. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
12. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
19. A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle.
21. English Shakespearean actor also noted for appearances in films (1904-2000).
23. A notice of someone's death.
25. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
27. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
30. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
31. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
33. A city in Veneto.
34. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
35. German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947).
38. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
42. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
43. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
46. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
49. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
51. A telephone connection.
55. A person forced to flee from home or country.
57. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
58. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Nalfon) used in the treatment of arthritis and other painful inflammatory disorders.
60. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
61. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
63. Steal goods.
65. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
67. Not open.
68. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
69. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
70. A three-tone Chadic language.
72. A master's degree in business.
74. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
78. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
79. Before noon.

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