Crossword Puzzle Number 6920 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Any period of seven consecutive days.
12. An affirmative.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).
17. Late time of life.
18. Covered with paving material.
20. A woman of refinement.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. Accomplishment of an objective.
24. An oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary.
26. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
29. American novelist (1909-1955).
32. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
33. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
37. A genus of Ploceidae.
39. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
40. With rapid movements.
41. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
42. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
47. Mastiff bats.
50. Wearing footgear.
51. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
52. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
53. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
54. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
56. Marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell.
59. A doctor's degree in religion.
60. Sounding as if pronounced low in the throat.
63. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
65. Deprive (infants) of mother's milk.
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
70. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
73. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
77. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
78. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
79. Capable of being tamed.
80. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
81. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
82. Not fanciful or imaginative.
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
4. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
5. The act of escaping physically.
6. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
7. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
8. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
9. (informal) Roused to anger.
10. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
11. (law) A formal objection to an opponent's pleadings.
12. Not only so, but.
13. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
19. Extracted from a source of supply as of minerals from the earth.
23. An inhabitant of Lappland.
25. The stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea.
27. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
31. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
34. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
35. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
36. Necessary for relief or supply.
38. Wool of the alpaca.
43. A useful or valuable quality.
44. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
46. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
48. Edible bulb of an onion plant.
49. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
55. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
57. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
58. The slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
61. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
62. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
64. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
67. By bad luck.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
71. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
72. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
74. Standard temperature and pressure.
75. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
76. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.

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