Crossword Puzzle Number 2348 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
4. Coextensive with the family Palmae.
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
15. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
16. A person who escapes into a world of fantasy.
17. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
18. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
20. Small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs.
21. Make amendments to.
23. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
24. A Spanish river.
26. A Mid-Atlantic state.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
38. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
41. Type genus of the Anatidae.
45. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
47. Lacking self-confidence.
48. Of or relating to or designating narcotics.
53. At a steady rate or pace.
54. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
55. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
56. Characterized by disconcerting directness in manner or speech.
58. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
63. Dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
68. The wife or widow of a czar.
70. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
71. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
73. A castrated tomcat.
74. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
75. Reproduce someone's behavior or looks.
77. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
78. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
79. The person who steers a ship.
80. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.

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1. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
2. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
3. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
6. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
7. English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965).
8. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
9. Resembling or similar.
10. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
11. Indicating the most important performer or role.
12. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
13. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
14. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia.
25. These words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.
29. Being seven more than fifty.
31. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
33. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
34. Pronounce with an initial sibilant.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
40. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
42. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
43. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
44. Of or relating to near the ear.
46. A human limb.
49. A doctor's degree in optometry.
50. Any of various mostly giant tropical lianas of Africa and Madagascar having greenish or purple flowers and long smooth pods.
51. (medieval legends) The nephew of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other.
52. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
57. An uproarious party.
59. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
60. Lamb leg suitable for roasting.
61. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
62. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
64. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
65. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
66. A wound made by cutting.
67. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
69. Stalk of a moss capsule.
72. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
76. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.

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