Crossword Puzzle Number 8049 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Waves breaking on the shore.
5. (of exocrine glands) Producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell.
12. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
15. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
16. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Chief port of Yemen.
19. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
20. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
22. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
24. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
27. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
28. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
31. Large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber.
33. A state in midwestern United States.
36. A period of time spent sleeping.
37. A New England state.
38. A Nilotic language.
41. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
43. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
45. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
48. Look with amazement.
49. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
50. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
51. Gather, as of as crops.
52. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
53. The square of a body of any size of type.
54. Lower in esteem.
56. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
58. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
60. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
62. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
68. Fallow deer.
73. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
74. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
75. Kauri pine.
76. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
77. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
78. Made over usually with changes.
79. The sign language used in the United States.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Relating to the Urdu language.
3. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
4. (Norse mythology) An enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin.
5. The range of the eye.
6. A waiter at a drive-in restaurant.
7. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
8. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
9. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. Parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
13. The capital of Western Samoa.
14. A large quantity of written matter.
21. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal.
26. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
29. A deep bow.
30. Reject with contempt.
32. On end or upright.
34. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
35. A written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court law asking for the grievance to be redressed.
39. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
40. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
42. A Nilotic language.
44. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
57. United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951).
60. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
67. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
69. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
72. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.

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