Crossword Puzzle Number 2132 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. Capable of being acted.
11. Informal terms for a mother.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. An Irish girl.
17. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
20. An unofficial association of people or groups.
21. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
27. A cry or shout of approval.
29. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
31. Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. The season when the leaves fall from the trees.
38. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
40. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
42. (British) An old shabby movie theater.
45. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
47. A decree that prohibits something.
48. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
51. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
52. An uproarious party.
55. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
60. A Scottish word.
64. Be earlier in time.
66. Any of various plants of the genus Ursinia grown for their yellow- or orange- or white-rayed flowers.
68. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
69. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
72. A marine turtle.
73. Toward the mouth or oral region.
76. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
77. Being nothing more than specified.
78. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
79. Being one more than nine.

DOWN

1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. Fruit or seed of the cowpea plant.
6. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
7. One of the three prairie provinces in western Canada.
8. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
9. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
10. Either extremity of something that has length.
11. Covered with paving material.
12. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
13. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
14. Chief port of Yemen.
23. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
25. 100 seniti equal 1 pa'anga.
26. (Irish) Ancient Irish god (probably a god of the sun).
28. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
33. Clear to the mind.
35. A soft whitish calcite.
36. An island of central Hawaii.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A bachelor's degree in library science.
43. A person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle).
44. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
46. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
49. A signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of Parliament were condemned and abhorred.
50. Adorned by inlays.
53. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
54. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
56. The face or front of a building.
57. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
58. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
59. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
61. Not set afire or burning.
62. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
63. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
65. Not widely known.
67. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
70. A form of address for a married woman.
71. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
74. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
75. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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