Crossword Puzzle Number 1579 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
4. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
15. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
16. The craniometric point in the region of the sphenoid fontanelle.
17. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
18. United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975).
20. The absence of mental stress or anxiety.
22. Type and only genus of the family Esocidae.
24. Pronounce with a lowered velum.
25. Tasting sour like a lemon.
28. A young pig.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
30. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
32. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
34. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers.
43. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
47. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).
49. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
51. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).
52. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. A Russian river.
58. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
60. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
61. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes.
66. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
74. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
76. A thin strip (wood or metal).
77. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
79. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
80. Wife of Ramachandra.
81. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
82. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

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1. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians.
2. Remove from memory or existence.
3. Place in a grave or tomb.
4. Rate of revolution of a motor.
5. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
6. Being of the age 13 through 19.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. A woman who is engaged to be married.
9. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
10. Extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head.
11. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
12. A selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade name Paxil).
13. Native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery.
14. Device for resetting instruments or controls v 1.
19. Of or befitting or characteristic of a wife.
21. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
23. Type genus of the family Zygnemataceae.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year.
31. Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall.
33. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
36. Any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas.
37. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
38. Make amendments to.
40. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
41. A quantity of no importance.
42. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
46. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
48. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
53. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. (informal) Of the highest quality.
59. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
62. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
63. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
64. Type genus of the Nepidae.
65. Divisible by two.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. Rounded like an egg.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. A rapid bustling commotion.
73. Lacking in light.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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