Crossword Puzzle Number 2742 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
5. The cardinal number that is the sum of six and one.
11. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
15. A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.
16. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
17. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
18. Of or relating to or involving an area.
20. A metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe).
21. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
22. An ache localized in the back.
24. A port city in southwestern Iran.
26. Hairpiece covering the head and made of human or synthetic hair.
27. Involving the entire earth.
30. The most important league in any sport (especially baseball).
33. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
34. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
38. An ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair.
40. Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC).
41. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
42. Web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks.
45. A period of time spent sleeping.
46. Estrangement from god.
49. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
52. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
53. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
54. Medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark.
58. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
59. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
63. The cry made by sheep.
66. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
71. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
72. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
75. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
76. At or constituting a border or edge.
77. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
79. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
80. The time during which someone's life continues.
81. The father of your father or mother.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
5. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
6. Make an etching of.
7. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
8. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
9. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
10. An organized body of related information.
11. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
14. A primeval personification of air and breath.
19. (Scotland) A landowner.
23. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees.
29. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
31. A heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering.
32. United or combined.
35. Transient cessation of respiration.
36. A man who is engaged to be married.
37. The capital of the state of Kansas.
39. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
43. In operation or operational.
44. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
47. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
48. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
50. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
51. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
55. A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
61. English monk and scholar (672-735).
62. A mournful poem.
64. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
65. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
67. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
68. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
73. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
74. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
78. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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