Crossword Puzzle Number 1252 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
4. The art of making and decorating pottery.
12. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. Combined with or having undergone a chemical reaction with oxygen.
17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
18. Make believe.
20. The twelfth month of the civil year.
22. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
24. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States.
26. (of tempo) Slow adv.
27. The capital of Morocco.
28. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
31. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
33. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
36. Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.
39. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
42. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
43. South African term for `boss'.
45. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
48. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
49. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
51. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
53. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
55. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
56. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
58. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
62. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. An instance of driving away or warding off.
66. Providing enjoyment.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. Type genus of the Desmodontidae.
75. A negative.
76. A brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note.
77. A drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria.
78. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
79. Used of a single unit or thing.
80. A great raja.
81. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.

DOWN

1. (British slang) Cafe.
2. A European river.
3. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
4. Express strong disapproval of.
5. (combining form) Former.
6. A state in New England.
7. African antelopes.
8. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
9. Drug (trade name Isuprel) used to treat bronchial asthma and to stimulate the heart.
10. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level.
11. A state in north central United States.
12. Trade name for a drug containing an antihistamine and a decongestant.
13. The sixth month of the civil year.
14. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
19. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
21. Squash bugs.
23. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. The comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment.
30. Of a pale purple color.
32. The part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum.
34. Of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones.
35. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. An informal term for a father.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
44. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
46. Top part of an apron.
47. A large number or amount.
50. Dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill.
52. A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese.
54. A heavy precious metallic element.
57. The basic unit of money in Spain.
59. The state that precedes vomiting.
60. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
61. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
65. Very dark black.
67. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
68. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
69. Characteristic of false pride.
70. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
73. A master's degree in business.
74. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).

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