Crossword Puzzle Number 2173 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. A flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf.
11. A book of the New Testament.
15. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
16. An orchid of the genus Liparis having few leaves and usually fairly small yellow-green or dull purple flowers in terminal racemes.
17. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
18. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
19. Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.
20. The probability of a specified outcome.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
34. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
35. A sheath worn to protect a finger.
37. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
40. Dance the slam dance.
42. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
44. A city in central Texas.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
49. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
50. Give a description of.
52. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
53. A short aria.
56. An affirmative.
57. A Mid-Atlantic state.
58. A state in New England.
60. Be compatible or in accordance with.
64. Device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like.
70. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
71. A person who worships idols.
74. The cry made by sheep.
75. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
76. In an adroit manner.
77. A container.
78. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
79. The levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa).
80. The compass point midway between northeast and east.

DOWN

1. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
4. A metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe).
5. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
6. Situated at an apex.
7. Australasian kingfishers.
8. Using speech rather than writing.
9. Made of packed earth or gravel.
10. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
11. Lacking gonads.
12. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
13. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
14. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
22. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
28. Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints.
33. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
36. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly.
38. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
39. Easily irritated or annoyed.
41. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. (informal) Exceptionally good.
47. Of or involving or contained in the arteries.
51. Give over.
54. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
55. The quarter of many European cities in which Jews are required to live.
59. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
61. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
62. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
63. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
65. A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog).
66. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
67. A French abbot.
68. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
69. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
72. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
73. A toilet in England.

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