Crossword Puzzle Number 8065 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
4. A metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century.
12. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
15. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
16. Not close together in time.
17. A tight-fitting headdress.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
20. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
22. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. Tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage.
30. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
32. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
34. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
36. A bachelor's degree in religion.
41. A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot.
43. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
45. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
46. Of or pertaining to the Avesta (sacred text of Zoroastrianism).
48. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
49. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
52. A human limb.
53. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
56. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
59. A light-weight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun.
60. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
61. Blood-sucking African fly.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
70. A socially awkward or tactless act.
73. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
74. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
75. An eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies).
77. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
78. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
79. A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second.
80. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.

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1. In the Roman calendar.
2. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
3. Jordan's port.
4. A message written in a secret code.
5. The residue that remains when something is burned.
6. A support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table).
7. On or toward the lee.
8. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
9. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
10. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
11. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
12. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
13. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
14. Remote and separate physically or socially.
21. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
23. The superior of a group of nuns.
27. The mints.
31. The dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested.
33. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
35. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
37. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
38. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
39. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
40. Avatar of Vishnu.
42. Of or relating to of comprising atoms.
44. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
47. A state in southeastern United States.
50. Lap at the front of a coat.
58. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
63. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
66. A small stream.
76. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.

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