Crossword Puzzle Number 2689 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A shaped mass of baked bread.
5. Enthusiastic approval.
12. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
15. A Spanish river.
16. A bowl-shaped drinking vessel.
17. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
18. Any location known for vice and corruption.
20. Combining or mixing.
22. Testacean rhizopods.
25. Informal terms for money.
26. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
27. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
28. In this place or thing or document.
31. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
34. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
35. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
39. A foot traveler.
41. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
43. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
45. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
46. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
47. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
48. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
50. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
51. Narrow and long and pointed.
54. A young eagle.
56. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
57. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
60. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
61. Land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.
64. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
67. The levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa).
72. English monk and scholar (672-735).
74. Expressing pain or agony.
75. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
78. An accidental happening.
79. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
80. Made clean.
81. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.

DOWN

1. For fear that.
2. A slender double-reed instrument.
3. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
4. Be about.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. Most important element.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. A three-year law degree.
9. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
10. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
11. (Judaism) A candelabrum with seven branches used in ceremonies to symbolize the seven days of creation.
12. An ability that has been acquired by training.
13. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
14. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
19. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
21. Any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae.
23. Become gelatinous.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
30. An immunoglobulin E that is formed as an antibody against allergens (such as pollen).
32. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
33. Wild geese.
36. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
37. A flexible container with a single opening.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something v 1.
42. Any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum.
44. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.
53. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
55. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
58. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
59. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
62. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
63. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
65. A feeling of intense anger.
66. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
68. Capital and largest city of Italy.
69. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
70. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
71. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
73. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
76. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
77. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.

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