Crossword Puzzle Number 1459 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An enclosed space.
4. A dog trained to guard property.
12. Minor or subordinate.
15. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
16. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
17. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
18. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
19. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
20. Someone who conducts surveys of public opinion.
22. A member of the beat generation.
24. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
25. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. An airfoil that controls lateral motion.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
32. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941).
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
38. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
39. Loss of the ability to swallow.
41. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
43. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
45. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
46. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A condition requiring relief.
51. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
52. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
54. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
56. In a tense manner.
58. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
60. Humble request for help.
61. With eagerness.
65. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
68. Make secure by lashing.
71. The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
77. The quantity broken.
79. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
80. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
81. Marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters.
82. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
4. Affected by wear.
5. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
6. Large drinking vessel with one handle.
7. A New England state.
8. strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the like-sided legs moving in unison.
9. The type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants.
10. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
11. A hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
14. A genus of Mustelidae.
21. A large bonnet that shades the face.
23. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
28. Having no employment.
30. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
31. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
33. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
34. Something hard to endure.
35. A formal expression of praise.
37. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
40. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
44. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
48. A large outdoor fire.
50. 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. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
55. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
57. Something a given number of yards long.
59. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
62. United States parapsychologist (1895-1980).
63. A person who avoids the company or assistance of others.
64. A North American river.
66. In bed.
67. With no effort to conceal.
69. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
70. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
73. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
74. (British) Your grandmother.
75. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
78. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.

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