Crossword Puzzle Number 1353 (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. Producing exhaustion.
12. Former measure of the US economy.
15. Liquid excretory product.
16. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
17. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. Caught in European waters.
20. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
22. Become globular.
25. Become less tense.
27. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
34. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
35. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
38. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
39. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
41. (Christianity) Holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine.
44. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
45. Used of a single unit or thing.
46. A state in midwestern United States.
48. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
50. A pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money.
52. (anatomy) Of or relating to a chiasm.
54. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
56. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
57. A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. A Loloish language.
63. Conveyed by sea.
69. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
72. A genus of Paridae.
73. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
74. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. An enclosed space.
78. Range of what one can know or understand.
79. Hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes.
80. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).

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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.
3. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
4. English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791).
5. Large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes.
6. Jordan's port.
8. Bark in a high-pitched tone.
9. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
12. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
13. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
14. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
21. Marked by skill in deception.
23. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
24. (Norse mythology) One of a race of giants often in conflict with the Aesir.
26. Informal terms for a mother.
28. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
29. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
30. Type genus of the Coraciidae.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
33. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
36. That is to say.
37. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
40. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
47. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
49. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
51. An ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor.
53. Any location known for vice and corruption.
55. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
58. Divide by two. divide into halves.
59. Cause to lose one's nerve.
61. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
64. A very light brown.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
67. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
68. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
70. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
71. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
75. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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