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ACROSS
1. Beyond what is natural.
5. Painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible.
12. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
15. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
16. (of a roof) Having two slopes each side of the ridge.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A person who is not a serf or a slave.
20. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
22. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
23. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
25. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
26. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
30. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
32. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
33. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
36. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
39. In bed.
42. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
44. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
47. Having the head uncovered.
48. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
50. (Italian cookery) Squid prepared as food.
52. A city in northwestern Turkey.
54. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
55. Source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible.
59. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
62. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
63. The cry made by sheep.
64. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
67. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
71. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
76. Flat and uninspiring.
77. The closing section of a musical composition.
78. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
79. A French abbot.
80. A rounded projection or protuberance.
81. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
82. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
DOWN
1. Below the required standards for a purpose.
2. Australian clover fern.
3. A squeaking sound.
4. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
5. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
7. After noon.
8. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
9. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
10. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
13. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
21. Covered with paving material.
24. Take in solid food.
27. The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis.
28. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. Jordan's port.
34. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
35. Dividing an animal into right and left halves.
37. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
38. A city in southeastern South Korea.
40. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
41. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
43. Any of numerous low-growing cushionforming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
46. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
49. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
51. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
53. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
57. God of the earth.
58. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
60. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
61. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
65. Armor plate that protects the chest.
66. A city in northern India.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
70. British politician (1788-1850).
72. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
73. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
74. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.