Crossword Puzzle Number 1290 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
4. One of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons.
11. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
15. Seed of a pea plant.
16. Leaf bugs.
17. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. A lawyer who pleads cases in court.
20. Goddess of fertility.
21. Tropical genus of small trees or shrubs.
23. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease.
25. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
27. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
28. A sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid.
31. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
35. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
36. A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.
39. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. Wet through and through.
43. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
46. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
48. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
49. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
51. Subdivision not used in some classifications.
53. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
55. The shape of a bell.
57. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
60. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
62. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
68. A woman of refinement.
69. A Hindu prince or king in India.
72. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
73. Rounded like an egg.
76. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
77. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
78. Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus.
79. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.

DOWN

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Perceive sound.
3. God of death.
4. Be a hindrance or obstacle to.
5. Resembling or reminiscent of silver.
6. Mountain goats.
7. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
8. Not divisible by two.
9. A formal expression of praise.
10. Suggestive of the supernatural.
11. A piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit.
12. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
13. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
14. A vertical spar for supporting sails.
22. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
24. Closed with a lace.
26. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
30. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
32. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
33. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
34. In a state of sleep.
37. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
38. A place where the wicked are punished after death.
42. God of love and erotic desire.
45. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
47. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
50. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
52. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
54. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
56. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
58. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
59. Preserve of crushed fruit.
61. Obvious and dull.
63. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
64. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
65. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
66. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
67. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
70. Gone by.
71. The first month of the year.
74. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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