Crossword Puzzle Number 2340 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Type genus of the Suidae.
4. Winged monster with an eagle-like head and body of a lion.
11. A French abbot.
15. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
16. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
17. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan.
18. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
20. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
21. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
22. A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene.
24. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
26. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
27. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
28. Type genus of the Apidae.
29. A Hindu prince or king in India.
32. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
36. A quantity of no importance.
39. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
44. Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856).
45. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
48. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
50. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. Any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia.
53. Precisely as stated.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
56. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
57. An enzyme secreted in the digestive tract that catalyzes the breakdown of fats into individual fatty acids that can be absorbed into the bloodstream.
60. A native of ancient Troy.
62. A false statement.
64. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
68. A negative.
69. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
73. The ending of a series or sequence.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
75. Genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers.
77. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
78. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
79. Continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place.
80. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.

DOWN

1. Leather with a napped surface.
2. Not set afire or burning.
3. A piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle.
4. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
5. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
6. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
7. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. A large number or amount.
9. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil.
10. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
13. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
14. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
19. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
23. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
25. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
30. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
31. A city in northern Mexico on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso.
33. Providing protective supervision.
34. A milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives.
35. Remove from political office.
37. In bed.
38. An informal term for a father.
40. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
41. Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop.
46. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
47. Of or relating to a caesura.
49. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
52. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
54. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
58. Complacently or inanely foolish.
59. Asian rat snakes.
61. Verbal abuse.
63. English pianist (1890-1965).
65. Being nothing more than specified.
66. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
67. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
70. A small amount (especially of a drink).
71. Black tropical American cuckoo.
72. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
76. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.

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