Crossword Puzzle Number 1278 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Any shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix having small scalelike or needle-shaped leaves and feathery racemes of small white or pinkish flowers.
12. A branch of the Tai languages.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
17. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
18. Any salt or ester of benzoic acid.
19. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. A German machine gun.
24. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
25. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
27. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
28. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
30. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
37. A person being ordained.
42. Himalayish language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.
44. Very dark black.
45. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
48. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
49. (Irish) The sea personified.
52. A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior.
54. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
56. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
57. A Nilotic language.
60. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance.
62. Used by northerners of Confederate soldiers.
65. Covered with scabs.
68. Any salt or ester of chromic acid.
72. Of or relating to a nail or claw or hoof.
74. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
75. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
76. Any of various types of cabbage.
79. A man who courts a woman.
80. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
81. A festival featuring African-American culture.
82. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.

DOWN

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
3. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
4. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
5. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
6. New Zealand conifer.
7. Make amendments to.
8. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
9. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
10. German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856).
11. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
12. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
13. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
14. The basic unit of money in China.
20. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas.
23. The last (12th) month of the year.
26. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
29. How long something has existed.
31. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
33. An associate degree in nursing.
35. An African amulet.
36. Remove offensive capability from.
38. (Greek mythology) Wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
39. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
40. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
41. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
43. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
46. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
47. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
50. Slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp.
51. The smaller of the two satellites of Mars.
53. Found along western Atlantic coast.
55. Being or passing over or across the sea.
58. A Mid-Atlantic state.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
61. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
63. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
64. God of wealth and love.
66. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
67. American novelist (1909-1955).
69. A fit of shivering.
70. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
71. A genus of Mustelidae.
73. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
78. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.

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