Crossword Puzzle Number 2427 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
4. The condition of having no arms.
12. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
15. The sign language used in the United States.
16. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system.
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
18. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
20. Type genus of the Upupidae.
21. Fiddler crabs.
22. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
24. Something (especially a game) that is played again.
26. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
28. A family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States.
29. 1/1000 gram.
31. A quantity of no importance.
33. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. Malicious satisfaction.
42. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
44. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
45. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
46. Make less active or intense.
48. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
49. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
52. Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816).
55. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
58. Complacently or inanely foolish.
59. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
61. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
63. Extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front.
66. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
70. Come out into view, as from concealment.
71. Little known Kamarupan languages.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
76. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
78. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
79. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
80. Learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it.
81. Black tropical American cuckoo.

DOWN

1. Framework for holding objects.
2. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
3. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
4. A large fleet.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. A state in New England.
7. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
8. A byproduct of inflammation.
9. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
10. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
11. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
12. A cartoon character created by Walt Disney.
13. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
14. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
19. A city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal.
23. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
25. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
27. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
30. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
32. An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834).
34. Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome.
36. The shore of a sea or ocean.
37. English monk and scholar (672-735).
38. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
39. A linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons.
41. Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions.
43. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
47. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
51. A male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina.
53. Pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866).
54. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
56. A city in northwestern Turkey.
57. Of or relating to a wedding.
60. A state in northwestern North America.
62. Of or relating to a hair.
64. A primeval personification of air and breath.
65. (informal) Very tired.
67. A Hindu prince or king in India.
68. Very dark black.
69. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
72. Used of a single unit or thing.
73. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
77. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.

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