Crossword Puzzle Number 1535 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. (anatomy) Of or related to an ampulla.
12. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the Empress of India (1804-1881).
17. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
20. A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
21. Speaking a Slavic language.
23. A substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned.
25. Seed of a pea plant.
26. A mistake resulting from inattention.
28. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
30. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
32. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
37. The capital of Croatia.
39. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
40. A nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank.
43. A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.
44. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
45. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
47. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
50. A general anesthetic (not a barbiturate) that is administered intravenously or intramuscularly.
53. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
54. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
57. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
58. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
62. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
65. One of a family of granular intrusive rocks.
67. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
68. Having a woven pattern.
71. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
72. (Babylonian and Assyrian) Goddess of love and fertility and war.
75. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
76. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
77. Female sheldrake.
79. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
80. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
81. A public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. By bad luck.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Relating to principles of right and wrong.
4. A rapid bustling commotion.
5. Submersible vessel for one or two persons.
6. A genus of Stromateidae.
7. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
8. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
9. (horseshoes) The throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. Of wines, fruit, cheeses.
12. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
13. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
14. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
22. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
24. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
27. Any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds.
29. A hard copal derived from an African tree.
31. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
35. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
36. English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805).
38. A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
42. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. An honorary arts degree.
49. Informal terms for a mother.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. Informal terms for clothing.
55. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
56. Fallow deer.
59. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
60. Cause to be embarrassed.
61. (of something seen or heard) Clearly defined.
63. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
64. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
66. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
73. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
74. A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
78. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.

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