Crossword Puzzle Number 8051 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
4. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers.
12. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A person with a record of successes.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
20. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
22. The capital and largest city of Finland.
25. Very dark black.
27. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
28. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
31. The twelfth month of the civil year.
33. Highly excited.
35. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
40. Standard temperature and pressure.
44. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
45. Any plant of the genus Phacelia.
48. Half the width of an em.
49. (geology) Used of the earliest known rocks.
54. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
55. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
59. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
60. Baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables.
65. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
67. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
71. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
72. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
75. The month following February and preceding April.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
79. Make amends for.
80. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
81. The last (12th) month of the year.

DOWN

1. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
2. A fit of shivering.
3. A telephone connection.
4. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
5. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
6. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
7. The environmental condition.
8. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
9. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
12. A cruel and brutal fellow.
13. European shad.
14. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
19. Earlier a god.
21. A housing for a radar antenna.
23. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
24. A special way of doing something.
26. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
29. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
30. The striking of one body against another.
32. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. Coils of worsted yarn.
39. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
41. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
42. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
43. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
46. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
47. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
51. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
52. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
62. Moving quickly and lightly.
70. One thousandth of a second.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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