Crossword Puzzle Number 1710 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
4. Aroused or activated.
12. Inquire about.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
17. Fiddler crabs.
18. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
19. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
20. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
25. A sudden very loud noise.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. Tending or intended to rectify or improve.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. Of or relating to or containing barium.
43. A city in northern India.
44. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
45. Affect with wonder.
46. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
47. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
52. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
55. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
56. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
57. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
58. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
59. Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells.
64. The financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time.
68. The cry made by sheep.
69. Of or containing lithium.
72. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
73. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
74. (especially of plants) Developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light.
76. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
77. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
78. State in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror.
79. 10 hao equal 1 dong.

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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
5. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
6. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
7. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
8. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
9. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx.
10. English essayist (1775-1834).
11. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
24. A native-born Israeli.
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
31. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
33. (British) A dealer in textiles (especially silks).
34. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
36. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
37. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
38. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
39. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
50. Normal relaxed breathing.
51. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
53. In a vehement outcry.
54. The form of government of a social organization.
60. The general activity of selling.
61. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
62. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
63. A unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter.
65. An endorsement.
66. Flat tableland with steep edges.
67. (prefix) Within.
70. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
71. A tight-fitting headdress.
75. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).

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