Crossword Puzzle Number 8047 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. God of fire.
5. Type genus of the family Balanidae.
12. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
15. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
16. A salt or ester of acetic acid.
17. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
18. Someone who operates an aircraft.
20. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy.
21. Seed of a pea plant.
22. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
29. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
30. An opening that permits escape or release.
31. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
35. Hot enough to boil.
39. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
40. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
41. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
44. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
45. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
46. (law) A gift of personal property by will.
47. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
49. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
51. A very light brown.
53. An elaborate song for solo voice.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
57. Someone employed by a gas company.
59. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
63. Any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes.
69. The cry made by sheep.
70. A Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen).
73. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
74. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
75. Available for lending.
77. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
78. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
79. (of water) Rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure.
80. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.

DOWN

1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907).
3. Australian clover fern.
4. Combine into one.
5. Obvious and dull.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. Towards the side away from the wind.
8. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
9. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
10. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
11. Any of various brown and yellow finches of pats of Europe.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
19. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
25. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
27. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
28. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
32. Remove offensive capability from.
33. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
34. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
36. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
37. A Loloish language.
38. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
42. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
43. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
48. A square dance figure.
50. An informal term for a father.
52. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
58. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
63. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
68. Fill to satisfaction.

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