Crossword Puzzle Number 2488 (Medium Grid)

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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
12. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Impaired by diminution.
17. Provided with artificial light.
18. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
19. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
20. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
21. An associate degree in applied science.
23. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
28. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. The triad of divinities of later Hinduism.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
36. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
40. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
42. Part of the province of Newfoundland in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava peninsula in northeastern Canada.
44. Used of a single unit or thing.
48. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
49. How long something has existed.
50. A title used to address any peeress except a duchess.
52. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
54. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
57. Being nine more than forty.
58. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
59. Basic principles of the cosmos.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. Make lighter or brighter.
71. A telegram sent abroad.
72. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
73. Capable of being scaled.
75. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
76. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
77. Large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws.
78. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.

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1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. South African term for `boss'.
4. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
7. Drug (trade name Isordil) used to treat angina pectoris and congestive heart failure.
8. Milk thickened with a butter and flour roux.
9. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
10. Having been read.
11. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction.
12. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
13. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
14. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
22. Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column.
24. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
25. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
26. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
27. A group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico.
30. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
32. A ribbon used as a decoration.
34. English monk and scholar (672-735).
37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. A mountain peak in the Saint Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high).
39. The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave.
41. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
43. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
45. A composer of sacred songs.
46. Having relatively few calories.
47. A long-playing phonograph record.
51. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
53. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
55. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
56. A small roofed building affording shade and rest.
60. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
61. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
62. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
63. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
64. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
65. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
66. English essayist (1775-1834).
67. Cause to go somewhere.
70. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
74. Being one more than fifty.

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