Crossword Puzzle Number 2009 (Medium Grid)

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15    16         17   
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23          24      
  25    26 27 28 29       
30 31  32   33      34  35 36 
37  38  39     40     41  
42   43   44  45    46 47   
48     49      50     
51     52        53   
54    55      56  57    
   58    59  60   61  62 63 
64 65 66     67 68      69  
70    71 72 73      74 75   
76    77        78    
79    80        81    

ACROSS

1. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
4. Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
12. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
15. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
18. An island of central Hawaii.
20. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
21. United States Film actress and daughter of Henry Fonda (born in 1937).
23. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
25. Take in solid food.
26. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
30. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
32. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. Informal terms for clothing.
37. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
39. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
40. A European river.
41. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
42. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
51. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
52. A song that was formerly popular.
53. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
54. The cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens.
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
64. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
67. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
69. Half the width of an em.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Tentacles of octopus prepared as food.
74. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
76. Having leadership guidance.
77. Direct or control.
78. A deep prolonged loud noise.
79. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
80. Similar or related in quality or character.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
2. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
3. Food chopped into small bits.
4. Neuralgia along the sciatic nerve.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. A large fleet.
7. The cry made by sheep.
8. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
9. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
10. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
11. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
12. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
13. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
14. The food served and eaten at one time.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. Draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight.
24. A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.
27. Filled to capacity.
28. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
31. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
36. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
38. Expressive of contempt.
43. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
44. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
45. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
47. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
49. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
50. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
55. Take off a hook.
56. Not open or affording passage or access.
57. Accumulate on the surface.
59. A long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs.
60. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
65. In bed.
66. A quantity of no importance.
68. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
72. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
73. Being one more than nine.
75. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.

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