Crossword Puzzle Number 1457 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
4. Any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes.
12. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. A long slender cigar.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
20. A woman of refinement.
21. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
22. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
23. The vital principle or animating force within living things.
26. A proteolytic enzyme obtained from the unripe papaya.
28. Relating to or used in making cabinets.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
33. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
34. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. A city in northern India.
45. Covered with paving material.
47. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
49. 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.
50. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. The act of ceding.
55. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
56. Coextensive with the order Cestida.
59. The science of mountains.
61. Follower of Rastafarianism.
62. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).
63. Free from dirt or impurities.
69. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
72. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
73. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
74. Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer.
76. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
77. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
78. Type genus of the family Ascaridae.
79. Inquire about.

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1. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
2. Basically shredded cabbage.
3. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. Involving or constituting a cause.
6. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
7. Inclined to or serving for the giving of names.
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
11. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
12. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
13. A structure supporting or containing something.
14. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
19. A drawing intended to explain how something works.
24. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
25. A genus of Limacidae.
27. (British) The dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally).
29. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
31. Free and relaxed in manner.
35. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
37. Lean end of the neck.
38. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
40. A large number or amount.
41. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
42. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
43. God of the underworld and judge of the dead.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
48. A lover blind with admiration and devotion.
53. Small personal or clothing or sewing items.
54. Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962.
57. Roman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva.
58. Spider monkeys.
60. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
64. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
65. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
66. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
67. Armor plate that protects the chest.
68. Very fertile.
70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
75. A state in New England.

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