Crossword Puzzle Number 1239 (Medium Grid)

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1. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
5. A raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam.
12. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice.
17. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
18. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.
19. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
20. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
21. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
22. Hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
28. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
29. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
31. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
37. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
39. In or of the present month.
42. (military) Withdrawal to a more favorable position.
43. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
45. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
46. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
47. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
48. A strong emotion.
52. Any high mountain.
53. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
54. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
56. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
57. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
62. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
63. A small island republic on the Tuvalu islands.
66. An artist of consummate skill.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. Relating to the Andes and their inhabitants.
74. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
75. A master's degree in library science.
76. A headlong rush of people on a common impulse.
78. Black tropical American cuckoo.
79. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
80. A great raja.
81. A local computer network for communication between computers.

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1. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
2. A particular environment or walk of life.
3. Decorative cover for a bed.
4. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
5. A decree that prohibits something.
6. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
7. The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC.
8. A small quantity of anything.
9. Measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle.
10. The basic unit of money in Iran.
11. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
12. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
26. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
27. Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence.
30. Subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe.
33. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
35. Imperial moths.
36. The stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea.
38. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
40. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
41. A three-tone Chadic language.
44. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
49. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
50. Tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers.
51. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
55. Grind together, of teeth.
58. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
60. (Russian) Fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley.
61. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
64. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
65. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
67. A bluish shade of green.
68. Type genus of the Ranidae.
69. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
72. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
73. The month following March and preceding May.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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