Crossword Puzzle Number 1782 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Of or relating to the French dynasty founded by Hugh Capet.
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. The capital of Eritrea.
20. Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
24. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
26. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
28. Being two more than ninety.
30. Celestial shepherd god.
37. Ludicrously odd.
38. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.
40. The content of cognition.
41. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. A state in northwestern North America.
45. Consisting of or made of cedar.
46. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
48. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
51. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
52. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
54. Coat a metal with an oxide coat.
56. A public promotion of some product or service.
57. A light touch or stroke.
58. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
60. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
62. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
64. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
71. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
75. An associate degree in applied science.
76. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
77. No longer active in your work or profession.
78. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
79. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
80. Sharply exact or accurate or delimited.
81. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.

DOWN

1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A vigorous blow.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
7. King of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633).
8. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
9. Someone who provides an index.
10. (informal) Of the highest quality.
11. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
14. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
19. A genus of Indriidae.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. (botany) Divided into two lobes.
27. Not out.
29. A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line.
31. Leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo.
32. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
33. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
34. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
35. A thin membrane lining the closed cavities of the body.
36. A bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats.
39. The sound made by corvine birds.
43. Jordan's port.
47. Textual matter that is added onto a publication.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. An informal term for a father.
59. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
61. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.
63. Verbal abuse.
65. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
66. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
68. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
69. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
70. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
72. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
73. (Irish) The sea personified.
74. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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