Crossword Puzzle Number 2480 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Largest known toad species.
5. A city in southwestern Virginia.
12. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
15. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
16. A resident of Anjou.
17. A doctor's degree in education.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
23. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783).
26. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
28. At or to or toward the front.
30. Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.
34. Ludicrously odd.
35. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
37. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
38. 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.
39. A notable achievement.
42. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
44. A large and densely populated urban area.
46. Wild ox.
49. A light touch or stroke.
50. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
51. Found along western Atlantic coast.
52. Any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum.
54. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
57. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
59. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
61. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
63. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
65. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
67. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
70. Relating to the Urdu language.
74. The basic unit of money in Iran.
75. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
77. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
78. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
79. Having the sense of smell.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. Not alert or attentive.
4. A state in northwestern North America.
5. A member of the Texas state highway patrol.
6. Moving toward a position ahead.
7. Gone by.
8. One of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis.
9. (sports) With hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level.
10. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
11. Half the width of an em.
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
13. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
14. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
19. Undo the ties of.
20. Preserve a dead body.
22. Transform into gold.
27. Being one more than three.
29. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
31. Articles of commerce.
32. Oblong cream puff.
33. Capable of existing or taking place or proving true.
36. An indistinct shapeless form.
40. The superior of an abbey of monks.
41. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
47. Capital and largest city of Queensland state.
48. Make a subtraction.
53. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
55. A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the surface of the sun.
56. The residue that remains when something is burned.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
62. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
64. 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.
66. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
72. An enclosed space.
73. A slight amount or degree of difference.
76. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.

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