Crossword Puzzle Number 2769 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
4. Of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of of taxonomic classification that he proposed.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. A fibrous amphibole.
17. Informal terms for the mouth.
18. An internal representation of the world.
20. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
22. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
24. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
33. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
41. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
42. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
43. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
44. 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.
45. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
46. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
48. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
50. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
51. (prefix) Within.
52. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
54. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. Provided with artificial light.
59. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
64. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
68. A smut fungus attacking Indian corn.
70. A genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF.
71. Toward the mouth or oral region.
72. Of or relating to a wedding.
75. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
76. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
77. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
78. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
79. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
80. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
4. Young sheep.
5. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
6. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
7. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
8. The residue that remains when something is burned.
9. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
10. Of or relating to the aorta.
11. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
12. English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542).
13. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
27. The cry made by sheep.
28. An ancient city is southern Greece.
30. A semiautomatic rifle.
31. Make amendments to.
32. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
34. Without doubt or question.
36. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
37. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
38. A workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding).
40. Bound or secured closely.
47. Shrubby climbers of tropical America.
49. (facetious) A serving of an alcoholic beverage.
53. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
57. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
58. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
60. An argument opposed to a proposal.
61. Rub elbows with.
62. Physically weak.
63. Goddess of war.
65. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
69. Using speech rather than writing.
73. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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