Crossword Puzzle Number 1170 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Cuddling and kissing.
5. A centare is 1/100th of an are.
12. A form of address for a married woman.
15. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
16. Regional and archaic.
17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
18. A feeling of intense anger.
19. Cooked in steam.
20. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
21. A genus of small kites of both Old and New Worlds.
23. The work of cleansing (usually with soap and water).
25. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
28. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
29. An item of factual information derived from measurement or research.
30. Offering fun and gaiety.
34. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
40. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
41. The limits within which something can be effective.
42. A short personal letter.
43. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. (Irish) The sea personified.
50. A department of northwestern France in the Pays de la Loire region.
51. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
54. Conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value.
56. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
57. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
58. A shade of brown with a tinge of red.
59. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
61. Deliver a sermon.
68. A shout to attract attention.
69. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
71. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
72. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
73. Of a leaf shape.
75. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
76. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
77. A spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Of or relating to or caused by streptococci.
2. City in Sudan.
3. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
4. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
5. An ancient language spoken by the Kassite people.
6. A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
7. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
8. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
9. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
10. Female ruff v 1.
11. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
12. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
13. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
14. The act of scanning.
22. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
24. Offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
26. Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745).
27. Before noon.
31. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
32. Yellow carotenoid pigments in plants and animal fats and egg yolks.
33. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
35. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
36. African mahogany trees.
38. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
39. A boy or man.
44. Used at the dining table.
45. Founder in 1629 of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665).
46. Using a pronoun or other pro-word instead of repeating a word.
48. The side of a sidewalk that is bordered by a curb.
52. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
53. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
55. Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid.
60. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
62. Not widely known.
63. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
64. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
65. Advanced in years.
66. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
67. God of love and erotic desire.
70. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
74. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.

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