Crossword Puzzle Number 2440 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An honorary degree in science.
4. Part of the province of Newfoundland in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava peninsula in northeastern Canada.
12. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
15. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
16. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
17. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931).
20. A British doctorate.
22. Make less visible or unclear.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
26. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
28. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
31. Radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked.
34. Occurring every day of the week except Sunday (and sometimes Saturday).
37. of or relating to poetry.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
42. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
44. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
45. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
46. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
47. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
50. Dry apple brandy made in Normandy.
53. (Irish) God of love and beauty.
55. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
56. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
57. Port city on Atlantic coast.
62. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
66. A movable barrier used in motor racing.
68. (zoology) Having a tail or taillike appendage.
70. English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869).
71. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
73. Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic.
74. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
75. The flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle.
78. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
79. The money risked on a gamble.
80. Incapacitated by injury or illness.
81. The compass point midway between east and southeast.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
3. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
4. Inclined to waste time and lag behind.
5. Black tropical American cuckoo.
6. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
7. Read anew.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. A voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause.
10. A Russian river.
11. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
12. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
13. Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.
14. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
21. A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering.
23. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
27. A chronic drinker.
29. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
30. Foul with waste matter.
32. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
33. United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966).
35. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
36. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
40. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
43. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
48. Ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion.
51. The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech.
52. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
54. Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed.
58. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
59. Of or belonging to an aecium.
60. Physical strength.
61. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
63. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
64. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
65. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards).
67. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
69. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
72. An accountant certified by the state.
76. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
77. 16 ounces.

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