Crossword Puzzle Number 1389 (Medium Grid)

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1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. Have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill.
11. Slightly open.
15. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
16. Remove body hair.
17. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
18. Used of a single unit or thing.
19. Be a sign or indication of.
21. The act of someone who picks up or takes something.
23. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
26. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
28. Before noon.
31. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
33. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
37. Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
43. 1/10 gram.
45. A light touch or stroke.
49. (informal) Of the highest quality.
50. Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness.
52. A Russian river.
54. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
55. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
58. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
59. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921).
68. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
71. A boy or man.
72. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
75. A cgs unit of work or energy.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. Caused to show discomposure.
78. The month following February and preceding April.
79. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
80. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
81. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
3. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
6. Uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting.
7. Slang for `drunk'.
8. Take in solid food.
9. (literary) Spirited horse for state or war.
10. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
13. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
14. Having been read.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. All the plant life in a particular region.
34. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
35. As much as a teacup will hold.
36. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
38. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
39. In a manner differing from the usual or expected.
40. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
41. Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.
44. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
46. Deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
53. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
56. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
57. Pull back or move away or backward.
61. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
62. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
64. A feeling of intense anger.
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. Little known Kamarupan languages.
67. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
69. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
70. A city in northern India.
73. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

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