Crossword Puzzle Number 2608 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
4. Of or relating to or supporting Romanism.
12. God of the earth.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
17. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
18. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
19. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
20. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
22. German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947).
24. Widely separated especially in space.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
29. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
30. Remove from memory or existence.
33. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
34. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
38. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
40. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
42. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
43. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
45. (architecture) Not arcuate.
47. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
49. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
50. (British) Your grandmother.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
54. Squash bugs.
57. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
58. Being nine more than ninety.
59. Either extremity of something that has length.
60. Two items of the same kind.
63. The remains of a dead body after cremation.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
73. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
74. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
75. A whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor).
77. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
78. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
79. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
3. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
4. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
5. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
6. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
7. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
8. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
9. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
10. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
11. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
12. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
13. At or constituting a border or edge.
14. A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.
21. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
23. The seventh month of the civil year.
25. A state in north central United States.
27. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
28. Fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals.
31. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
32. Type genus of the Annonaceae.
35. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
36. Land received by fee tail v 1.
37. A plaything that is ridden up and down by children at either end.
39. Offering fun and gaiety.
41. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
44. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
46. A large fleet.
48. Analysis of verse into metrical patterns.
53. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
55. (Old Testament) The 2nd son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel.
56. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
61. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
62. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
64. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
65. 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 gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
67. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
72. A partially opened flower.
76. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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