Crossword Puzzle Number 1027 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
5. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
16. A language user's knowledge of words.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
19. Ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side.
20. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
21. A genus of Limacidae.
23. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
25. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. Given to uttering bromides.
34. A blemish made by dirt.
38. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
39. Largest crested screamer.
42. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
43. A European river.
47. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
49. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
50. Small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers.
52. Situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible to the audience.
55. Be seated.
58. Having been read.
59. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
62. A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong.
64. So thin as to transmit light.
67. Wanted intensely.
71. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
72. Very large herbivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a small head a long neck and tail and five-toed limbs.
75. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
76. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
77. Ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes.
78. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
79. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.

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1. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
2. The basic unit of money in Peru.
3. Worthless people.
4. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
5. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
6. (Irish) The sea personified.
7. A straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions.
8. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
9. Sour or bitter in taste.
10. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
22. Being one more than ninety.
24. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. (British English) A small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater.
29. Before noon.
31. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
32. The ending of a series or sequence.
33. A human female who does housework.
35. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
36. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living around Cayuga Lake in New York state.
37. Reflecting the fear or terror of one who is hunted.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. German mathematician (1804-1851).
44. A handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood.
45. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
46. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
51. Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America.
53. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
54. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
56. United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925).
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
61. Very dark black.
63. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
68. Characteristic of false pride.
69. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
70. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
73. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
74. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.

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