Crossword Puzzle Number 1157 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (informal) Roused to anger.
4. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
11. Highly excited.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
17. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
18. (Irish) The sea personified.
19. Expel from a community or group.
21. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
23. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
24. With rapid movements.
25. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
27. The brightest star in Cygnus.
29. A bachelor's degree in science.
31. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
32. Steal goods.
35. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
37. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
38. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
43. God of the underworld.
44. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. Fastened together.
51. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
54. Again but in a new or different way.
56. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
58. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
69. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
71. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
72. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
73. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
77. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
78. (informal) Of the highest quality.
79. (of racket strokes) Made with palm facing direction of stroke.
80. A negative.

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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. On or toward the lee.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
5. A port city in southwestern Iran.
6. A decree that prohibits something.
7. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
8. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
9. Sea otters.
10. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
11. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables.
12. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
20. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
22. The central area of a church.
26. Either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from Rhodopsin by the action of light.
28. The fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear.
30. An ancient Greek city famous for military prowess.
33. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
34. A member of the North American Indian people of Oregon.
36. A thin strip (wood or metal).
40. An enclosed space.
41. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
42. Produced by a manufacturing process.
45. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
52. An anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers.
55. (India) Usually in combination.
57. Lower in esteem.
60. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
62. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
63. A hat that is round and black and hard with a narrow brim.
65. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
70. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
74. A radioactive transuranic element.
75. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
76. A doctor's degree in religion.

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