Crossword Puzzle Number 8017 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
5. (Phoenician) A fertility goddess.
12. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. Of or concerning this or that.
17. A city in the European part of Russia.
18. Imprudently incurring risk.
19. Fortification consisting of a low wall.
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. A disreputable vagrant.
23. The act of beginning something new.
25. A chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks.
27. United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961).
29. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. Enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds.
35. Take away the weapons from.
40. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
41. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
45. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
46. Show a response or a reaction to something.
49. One of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it.
51. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
53. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
54. Of a pale purple color.
55. Shift from one side of the ship to the other.
56. A small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile.
58. Not gained by merit or labor or service.
60. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
61. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
62. United States architect (born in England) (1802-1878).
70. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
71. A small island.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
76. One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature.
78. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
79. A very small circular shape.
80. The mints.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
82. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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1. Any wrongdoing for which and action for damages may be brought.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
4. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
5. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
6. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
7. Either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. An instance of driving away or warding off.
10. Tall grass of New Zealand grown for plumelike flower heads.
11. A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
12. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
13. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
22. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
24. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
26. A state in the eastern United States.
28. A town in north central Oklahoma.
30. Make attractive or lovable.
33. Take in, also metaphorically.
34. Used of mouth or eyes.
36. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
37. Having or given a name or title.
38. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
39. Thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game.
43. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
44. The capital of Croatia.
47. A person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable v 1.
53. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
58. A Mid-Atlantic state.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
67. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
73. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.

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