Crossword Puzzle Number 8022 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
4. Something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted.
12. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
15. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
16. Small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail.
17. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
18. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
19. Make fat or plump.
20. Make less active or intense.
22. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
24. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
25. Relating to totemism.
27. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
29. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods.
31. Lower in esteem.
33. A light plain-weave or twill-weave silk or silklike fabric (usually with a printed design).
36. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
38. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
39. A desert in central Asia.
44. The fifth day of the week.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
50. A Hindu prince or king in India.
52. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
54. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
55. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
60. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. (botany) Especially of leaves.
62. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
66. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
74. The basic unit of money in Albania.
75. 1 species.
77. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
78. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
79. Thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricles of the brain and the spinal cord canal.
80. An informal term for a father.

DOWN

1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. A jamb for a door.
4. Not in operation or operational.
5. A very troublesome child.
6. Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.
7. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
8. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
9. Hard fiber used in making coarse twine.
10. Being one more than fifty.
11. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
12. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
13. Medium-sized tubular pasta in short pieces.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
23. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
26. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
28. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
30. Small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers.
32. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
34. Run faster than.
35. An authoritative command or request.
40. A fraudulent business scheme.
41. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
42. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A large fleet.
51. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
58. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
59. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
66. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. The cry made by sheep.

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