Crossword Puzzle Number 2260 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Humble request for help.
5. Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen.
12. An accountant certified by the state.
15. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
16. Small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings.
17. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
18. The capital of Kyrgystan (known as Frunze 1926-1991).
19. Have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal.
21. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
22. Being nothing more than specified.
23. Ostentatiously lofty in style.
24. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
26. Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall.
29. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).
32. A jamb for a door.
35. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
36. A French abbot.
39. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
46. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
48. Ragout of game in a rich sauce.
51. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
52. A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
54. (Islamic) The will of Allah.
56. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
57. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
58. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. Hidden and difficult to see.
61. (Christianity) Saved from the bondage of sin.
66. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
69. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
70. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
72. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
73. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
77. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
78. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
79. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
2. The habitation of wild animals.
3. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
4. Absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts).
5. A city in Lombardy on the Po River.
6. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
7. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
8. Sweetened beverage of lime juice and water.
9. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
10. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
11. A sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid.
12. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
13. A beautiful and graceful girl.
14. In bed.
20. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
28. Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
30. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
31. A card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as their sevens.
33. Wildly disordered.
34. The process of taking in and expelling air during breathing.
37. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
38. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
42. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
44. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
47. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
49. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
50. Testacean rhizopods.
53. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
55. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
60. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
62. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
63. A quantity of no importance.
64. English essayist (1775-1834).
65. A small wooded hollow.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. God of death.
71. The cry made by sheep.
74. A bachelor's degree in science.
75. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
76. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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