Crossword Puzzle Number 8053 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. Not polite.
12. The basic unit of money in Romania.
15. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. A collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults.
17. Not in good physical or mental health.
18. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
19. European shad.
20. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
22. Speaking a Slavic language.
24. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
25. An Italian woman of rank.
26. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
28. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
30. Having or being distinguished by diminutive size.
33. Erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern United States.
37. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
38. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
40. Someone who bets.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. An exchange of ideas via conversation.
45. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
47. Mountain ebony, orchid tree.
50. A country on the island of Jamaica.
53. Enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
58. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
61. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
71. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
74. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
75. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
76. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
78. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
79. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
80. Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920).
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. A bachelor's degree in library science.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
5. A worker who drives mules.
6. Fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms.
7. Denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java.
8. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
9. Unable to move or resist motion.
10. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
11. A drop from an eye dropper.
12. Trace the shape of.
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
21. A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama.
23. A manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer.
27. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
29. A human limb.
31. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
32. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing.
34. Complacently or inanely foolish.
35. Intelligence derived from the interception and processing and analysis of foreign telemetry.
36. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
41. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
43. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
49. (Greek mythology) The Greek god of sleep.
51. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
52. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
57. Being nine more than ninety.
66. An elaborate song for solo voice.
70. (prefix) In front of or before in space.

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