Crossword Puzzle Number 6842 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Informal terms for a mother.
4. An ancient branch of the Semitic languages.
12. (computer science) Protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network.
15. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
16. The region of northwestern Italy.
17. Take in solid food.
18. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
19. Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes.
20. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
25. Tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas.
26. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
28. Make uniform.
30. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
33. Someone who tells a story.
37. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
38. An associate degree in nursing.
39. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. The smallest of the Great Lakes.
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
46. A master's degree in library science.
47. A state in New England.
48. Considerate and solicitous care.
52. American novelist (1909-1955).
54. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. Remove offensive capability from.
61. Carries luggage to air travelers.
63. Walk or tramp about.
65. 36th President of the United States.
66. A river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea.
72. Having had weeds removed.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
77. The workplace where coal gas is manufactured.
79. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
80. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
81. Water rats.
82. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

DOWN

1. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera.
4. The month following March and preceding May.
5. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. (Roman mythology) God of love.
8. A knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain).
9. Speak carefully, with rising and falling pitch.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. A river in Germany.
12. Detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues.
13. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
14. A major god.
21. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
23. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
27. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
29. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
31. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
32. A fabric made by knitting.
34. Chipmunks of eastern North America.
35. Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter.
36. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
42. Regional and archaic.
43. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
45. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
49. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
50. Tasting or smelling of onions or garlic.
51. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
53. One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature.
55. (informal) Of the highest quality.
56. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
60. The middle of the day.
62. Haunt like a ghost.
64. A heavy precious metallic element.
67. Any small compartment.
68. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
69. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
70. In bed.
71. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
73. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
74. A toilet in England.
78. A state in north central United States.

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