Crossword Puzzle Number 1258 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A small drink.
4. An individual portion of food or drink.
11. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
15. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
16. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
17. French poet and novelist and dramatist.
18. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
19. A small pore especially one in the reproductive bodies of certain algae and fungi through which spores pass.
20. In a competent capable manner.
21. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
23. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
24. (Bible) The archangel who was the messenger of God.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
27. Squash bugs.
29. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
30. A small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea.
31. A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold.
38. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
43. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
45. A central cohesive source of support and stability.
47. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
48. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
49. Not worth considering.
50. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
52. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. At or constituting a border or edge.
56. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
58. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
59. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
62. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
70. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
71. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
74. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
75. The state of being covered with unclean things.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
78. Suggestive of the supernatural.
79. Genus of tropical trees.
80. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.

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1. (Japanese) Rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed.
2. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
3. A genus of Ploceidae.
4. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
5. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion.
6. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
7. Serving as an essential component.
8. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
9. Large Indian antelope.
10. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
11. (criminal law) A pleading describing some wrong or offense.
12. Type genus of the Rubiaceae.
13. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
14. Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691).
22. Leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904).
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
28. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
34. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
35. Done or occurring in a brief period of time.
36. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
37. An persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair.
39. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
40. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
41. A town in north central Oklahoma.
42. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. A radioactive transuranic element.
51. In a drab manner.
53. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
57. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes.
60. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
61. Jordan's port.
63. The habitation of wild animals.
64. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
65. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
66. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
67. The female reproductive cell.
68. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
69. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
72. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
73. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.

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