Crossword Puzzle Number 1097 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
4. Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
16. A resident of Arizona.
17. Tag the base runner to get him out.
18. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
19. Not capable of movement or of being moved.
20. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
21. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up.
23. In a chatty loquacious manner.
25. Either extremity of something that has length.
28. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
29. The distinctive form in which a thing is made.
32. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
34. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
37. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
40. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. A female ballet dancer.
45. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
47. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
51. Leaf bugs.
54. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
56. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
59. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
60. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
63. Make attractive or lovable.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. Too numerous to be counted.
67. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
71. Appeal or request earnestly.
73. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
74. A public promotion of some product or service.
75. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
76. Tending to promote or preserve health.
80. An affirmative.
81. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
82. Having undesirable or negative qualities.

DOWN

1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
3. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
4. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
5. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
6. An instance or single occasion for some event.
7. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
8. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
9. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
10. (Middle Eastern) Small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds.
11. Administer an oil or ointment to.
12. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. In a competent capable manner.
22. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
24. A mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high).
26. A French abbot.
27. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
30. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
31. A person who avoids the company or assistance of others.
33. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
35. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
36. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
38. A circular segment of a curve.
39. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
41. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
44. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
46. A port city in southwestern Iran.
48. Proboscis worms.
49. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
52. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
53. Advanced in years.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
58. Of or relating to the sea.
61. An Australian boomerang.
62. A particular environment or walk of life.
66. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
68. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
77. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
78. Not out.
79. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.

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