Crossword Puzzle Number 1028 (Medium Grid)

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1. A bachelor's degree in theology.
4. A family of small soft-bodied insects that feed on decaying vegetation.
12. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
15. The fatty flesh of eel.
16. Having or producing no echo.
17. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
18. Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.
20. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
22. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
23. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
25. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
26. The person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment.
29. United States violinist (born in Austria) (1875-1962).
34. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
35. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
36. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
37. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
38. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
41. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
44. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
50. Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain.
52. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
54. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
57. A chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks.
58. An informal term for a father.
60. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
61. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
62. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
65. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
67. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
70. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
71. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
72. Feel happiness or joy.
75. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
78. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
79. A quantity of no importance.
80. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
81. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.

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1. Large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard.
2. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
3. An ore that is the chief source of zinc.
4. Liquid excretory product.
5. Poor handwriting.
6. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
7. (British) A maker of counterfeit coins.
8. Being nine more than forty.
9. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
10. The sign language used in the United States.
11. The act of escaping physically.
12. A port in central Norway on Trondheim Fjord.
13. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
14. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
19. (plural) Rare collector's items.
21. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
24. Any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products.
27. Anything of material value or usefulness.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. Cause to ripen.
31. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
32. A small byte.
33. Imperial moths.
39. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
40. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
42. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
43. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
46. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
47. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bavaria or its people.
51. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
53. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
55. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
56. A native or inhabitant of Crete.
59. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
63. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
64. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
66. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
68. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
69. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
73. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
74. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
76. Before noon.
77. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.

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