CROSSWORD 1675
ACROSS
1. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery. 4. A Japanese (paper or silk) wall hanging. 12. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood. 15. Something that remunerates. 16. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493). 17. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand. 18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 19. Remove or make invisible. 20. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion. 22. German hero. 24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite. 25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily. 27. Gone by. 31. (trade mark) A soft form of cereal for infants. 34. The emotion of hate. 35. Harsh or corrosive in tone. 38. Expel, as of gases and odors. 39. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology. 42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group. 43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms. 47. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived. 50. English monk and scholar (672-735). 52. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight. 54. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit. 55. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers). 56. An informal term for a father. 58. A tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives. 60. Relating to or associated with a coma. 64. Toward the mouth or oral region. 65. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient. 68. Tropical starchy tuberous root. 72. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs. 76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine. 77. Light informal conversation for social occasions. 78. Something or someone that causes trouble. 79. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm. 80. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank. 81. Confidently declared to be so. 82. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deepsea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean. 2. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk. 3. The eighth month of the civil year. 4. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India. 5. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin. 6. A commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River. 7. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in JudeoChristian mythology. 8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. 9. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buffbrown coat. 10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group. 11. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall. 12. Being five more than one hundred fifty. 13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples. 14. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter. 21. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae. 23. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. 28. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon. 29. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 30. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. 32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion. 33. Wild ox. 36. In the same place (used when citing a reference). 37. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America. 40. A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas. 41. A confusion of voices and other sounds. 45. The biblical name for ancient Syria. 46. Either of two large muscles of the chest. 48. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology. 49. Before noon. 51. Affect with wonder. 53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 57. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series). 59. Give expression to. 61. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs. 62. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal. 63. Remove from memory or existence. 66. The sixth month of the civil year. 67. Informal abbreviation of `gentleman'. 69. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. 70. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann. 71. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa. 73. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix. 74. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991. 75. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.