Crossword Puzzle Number 2715 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
4. Definite but not specified or identified.
11. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
17. Clean or orderly.
18. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
19. Remove the pins from.
20. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. North Atlantic sea poacher.
25. A city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay (an inlet of the East China Sea).
28. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
32. God of love and erotic desire.
35. A disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions.
37. A strong emotion.
38. A small lump or protuberance.
39. Closed with a lace.
40. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
47. Being nine more than forty.
48. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
50. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. Being one more than one hundred.
54. 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.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
57. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
61. (informal) Roused to anger.
62. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
70. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
71. Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized.
73. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
75. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
77. The basic unit of money in Iran.
78. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
79. The dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear.
80. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. Disabled in the feet or legs.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. Somewhat rough.
7. A genus of Siphonaptera.
8. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
9. Being one more than two.
10. (British) Your grandmother.
11. Take off a hook.
12. The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana people in Botswana.
13. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
14. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
23. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
24. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
26. Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907).
27. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
29. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
30. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
33. The capital and largest city of Bavaria in southeastern Germany.
34. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
36. A unit of length equal to 3 feet.
41. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
42. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
44. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
46. In bed.
49. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
56. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
58. The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate.
59. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
60. Enthusiastic approval.
63. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
64. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
65. A republic in western South America.
66. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
67. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
72. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
76. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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