Crossword Puzzle Number 1040 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
4. A sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria.
12. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
15. A rapid bustling commotion.
16. A person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point.
17. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
18. (Roman mythology) The Roman god of doorways and passages.
20. Showily imitative of art or artists.
22. Type genus of the Anatidae.
24. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
26. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
28. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
30. Understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something.
33. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
37. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
40. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
42. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A primeval personification of air and breath.
46. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
47. A Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy (1514-1564).
49. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
52. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
53. A long-playing phonograph record.
54. An appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips.
56. Small tropical flea.
60. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
62. An East Indian sailor.
66. A siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. The animal order including amoebas.
75. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
76. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
77. Of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of of taxonomic classification that he proposed.
78. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
79. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
80. A person who participates in a meeting.
81. A doctor's degree in education.

DOWN

1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. The Teutonic god of thunder.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
7. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
10. Serving as an essential component.
11. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
19. The act of using.
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. An archaic drinking vessel.
32. A band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain.
34. Jordan's port.
35. Cause to move back by force or influence.
36. Performance of moral or religious acts.
38. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
39. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
41. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.
45. A unit of length equal to 1760 yards.
48. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
50. An arthropod family including.
51. Lower in esteem.
55. Capital of Swaziland.
57. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
61. A discrete unit of living matter.
63. United States writer (1871-1900).
64. Having help.
65. Torn down and broken up.
67. A slender double-reed instrument.
68. Avatar of Vishnu.
69. Expel, as of gases and odors.
70. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
73. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
74. A decree that prohibits something.

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