Crossword Puzzle Number 81 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. A sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet.
12. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
16. Belonging to or inherited from one's father.
17. The month following March and preceding May.
18. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
20. Material used to daub walls.
22. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
25. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
27. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
28. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
37. A personal attractiveness that enables you to influence others.
41. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
43. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
48. Fraught with extreme danger.
51. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
53. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
55. A dictator or dictatorial person.
57. A shelter from danger or hardship.
59. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
66. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
68. Jordan's port.
70. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
74. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
75. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
76. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
77. An endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it v 1.
78. A town in north central Oklahoma.
79. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
80. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).

DOWN

1. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
2. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
3. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
8. The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world.
9. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii.
10. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
11. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
12. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
13. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
21. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
23. By bad luck.
24. A Mid-Atlantic state.
26. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
30. Metal shackles.
34. American author of inspirational adventure stories for boys.
35. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
36. Enthusiastic approval.
38. An orderly arrangement.
39. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
40. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
42. Fill with high spirits.
46. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
47. Hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot.
49. Expanded in scope.
50. God of love and erotic desire.
52. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
54. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
56. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
58. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
60. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
61. Lower in esteem.
62. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
64. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
65. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
67. Toward the mouth or oral region.
69. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
71. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
72. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
73. A decree that prohibits something.

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