Crossword Puzzle Number 1098 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
5. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
12. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
19. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
20. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. God of fire.
24. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
25. (anatomy) Any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
27. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
30. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
33. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
36. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
37. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
38. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
40. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
44. Late time of life.
48. Tag the base runner to get him out.
49. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
51. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
56. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses.
58. An associate degree in nursing.
59. Type genus of the Musaceae.
63. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
64. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
66. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
67. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
69. Capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy.
71. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
72. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
73. Dragonflies and damselflies.
76. Any of the three Fates or goddesses of destiny.
77. Drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. 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.
5. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
6. Brain corals.
7. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
8. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
9. Discrimination in favor of the able-bodied.
10. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
11. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
12. Small and light boat.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
22. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
26. Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war).
28. (usually plural) The state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound.
29. One thousandth of a second.
31. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
32. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
34. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
35. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
42. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
45. A former British gold coin worth 21 chillings.
46. (Greek mythology) The Greek personification of death.
47. A brimless Scottish cap with a flat top.
50. (British) A paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them.
52. (informal) Exceptionally good.
53. Any member of a ship's crew.
54. The cry made by sheep.
55. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
57. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
60. Act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Jordan's port.
65. Disparaging terms for small people.
68. An argument opposed to a proposal.
70. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
74. A Mid-Atlantic state.
75. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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