Crossword Puzzle Number 1580 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
5. A German machine gun.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. A boy or man.
16. A man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried.
17. Term of address for a man.
18. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
19. (Norse mythology) A dwarf who possessed a treasure that was stolen by Loki.
20. Seed of a pea plant.
21. The vein in the center of a leaf.
23. Causing great physical or mental suffering.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
29. A sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs.
33. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
37. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
38. Minor or subordinate.
39. 1/10 gram.
41. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
43. A large piece of something without definite shape.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. A city and port in northern Jutland.
50. On or toward the lee.
51. (Canada) A sled pulled by dogs.
53. A person active in party politics.
54. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
55. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
57. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
59. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
60. A desert in southern Israel.
62. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
64. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
65. A genus of Mustelidae.
68. A government order imposing a trade barrier.
74. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
76. Mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
80. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
81. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
82. A master's degree in business.
83. An associate degree in applied science.
84. Something transitory.
85. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.

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1. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
2. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
3. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
4. South American cavy.
5. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
6. A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.
7. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction.
8. The month following October and preceding December.
9. Atypically small.
10. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
11. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
12. Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables.
13. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. An associate degree in nursing.
30. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
31. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
32. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
34. With no effort to conceal.
35. Carnivorous fresh and salt water fishes.
36. A scheming person.
40. Offering fun and gaiety.
42. A decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game).
44. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
46. Capital and largest city of Italy.
47. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
49. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
58. Separate by avulsion.
61. Any plant of the genus Erica.
63. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
66. An inhabitant of Lappland.
67. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
69. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
72. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
73. Toward the mouth or oral region.
75. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
77. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
78. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.

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