Crossword Puzzle Number 7971 (Medium Grid)

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1. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
4. (Greek mythology) An Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos.
12. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
15. The capital and largest city of Japan.
16. Lacking general education or knowledge.
17. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
18. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
19. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
20. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
22. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
24. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
27. The basic unit of money in Brazil.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. A Japanese (paper or silk) wall hanging.
36. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
42. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
43. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
44. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
45. (informal) Roused to anger.
46. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
48. Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.
50. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
54. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
58. An honorary degree in science.
60. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
66. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
69. (Greek mythology) The Greek personification of death.
71. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
72. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
75. Malicious satisfaction.
76. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
77. Primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull.
79. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
80. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
81. Irish nationalist leader (1846-1891).
82. Located in or toward the back or rear.

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1. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
2. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
3. Involving the entire earth.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
6. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
7. Be foolish or senile due to old age.
8. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
9. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
10. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
11. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
12. A Bantu language.
13. Someone who skis.
14. Small donkey used as a pack animal.
21. Continuing forever or indefinitely.
23. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
25. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
28. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion.
29. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
32. American Revolutionary patriot.
33. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
34. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
35. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
37. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
39. In bed.
40. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
41. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
47. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
49. The act of ceding.
51. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
56. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
57. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
60. An expression of greeting.
62. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
65. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
68. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).

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