Crossword Puzzle Number 1175 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
11. Great in vertical dimension.
15. (Irish) The sea personified.
16. Evergreen tree of Pacific North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries.
17. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
18. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
19. Lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat.
20. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
21. Type genus of the Ranidae.
23. An enclosed space.
24. A naturally occurring estrogenic hormone.
26. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. A family of vines belonging to order Rhamnales.
34. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
39. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
40. Very light colored.
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
48. A person who eats human flesh.
50. Mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. United by being of the same opinion.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
58. An informal term for a father.
62. Diuretic drug (trade name Naqua) used to treat hypertension.
66. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
67. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
68. Resembling a tail.
72. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
73. Extremely pleasing.
74. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
75. Be obliged to pay or repay.
76. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
77. Temperamentally disinclined to talk.
78. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.

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1. All the plant life in a particular region.
2. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
3. A particular environment or walk of life.
4. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
5. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
6. Someone whose business is advertising.
7. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
8. A licensed medical practitioner.
9. Relating to anemia or suffering from anemia.
10. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
11. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. (British) A recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports.
14. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
22. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
25. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
28. The eleventh month of the civil year.
31. Of or belonging to an enemy.
32. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
33. Any plant of the genus Erica.
35. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
36. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
37. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
38. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. Widely known and esteemed.
43. Cheap and shoddy.
45. Top part of an apron.
46. In football.
47. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
49. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
53. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
55. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
56. Jordan's port.
59. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
60. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
61. Having help.
63. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
64. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
65. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
69. How long something has existed.
70. Related by blood.
71. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.

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