Crossword Puzzle Number 1668 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
4. Relating to or characterized by atrophy.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. Step on it.
16. Assail again.
17. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. (Arthurian legend) A nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table.
20. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
22. A sweet filling made of prunes or apricots.
24. A young unmarried woman.
26. Having the same or similar characteristics.
28. Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute.
29. The wife or widow of a czar.
32. Annual and perennial herbs of damp habitats.
36. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
37. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
38. A healthy capacity for vigorous activity.
39. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
40. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. A handheld collapsible source of shade.
45. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
48. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
49. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
50. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
55. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
57. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
58. A circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue.
61. A French abbot.
63. Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.
66. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
70. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
73. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
74. A port city in northern Vietnam.
77. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
78. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
79. One of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones.
80. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.

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1. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
2. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
3. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
4. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
5. Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions.
6. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
7. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
8. A unit of pressure.
9. The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.
10. Being one more than one.
11. A loud harsh or strident noise.
12. Type genus of the Apidae.
13. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
21. Small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems.
23. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
25. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
27. God of love and erotic desire.
30. Prepared by cutting.
31. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
33. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
34. Cause to move forward with force.
35. Make a more or less disguised reference to.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
46. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. Any plant of the genus Inula.
52. Edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc.
53. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
54. A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects.
56. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
59. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
60. Suggestive of the supernatural.
62. Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship.
64. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
65. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
67. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
68. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
69. Give over.
71. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
75. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
76. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.

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