Crossword Puzzle Number 2771 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
4. Exactness of adjustment.
12. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
15. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
16. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.
17. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
18. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
19. North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers.
20. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
21. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
23. A title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority.
24. A large fleet.
26. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
29. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
30. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
33. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
36. The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
38. Up to the present time.
39. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
43. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
44. United States comic actor in silent films.
47. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
50. A worker who oils engines or machinery.
51. An island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea.
52. A primeval personification of air and breath.
53. Be about.
55. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
57. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
59. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
60. God of the earth.
63. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
73. Being one more than seventeen.
74. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
75. Antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases.
77. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
78. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
79. A fibrous scleroprotein found in elastic tissues such as the walls of arteries.
80. An affirmative.

DOWN

1. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
2. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
3. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
4. A doctor's degree in theology.
5. Capable of being raised.
6. Relating to or written in majuscule letters (which resemble modern capitals).
7. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
8. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
9. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
10. A region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo.
11. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
13. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
14. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
22. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
25. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. Czech composer who combined folk elements with traditional forms (1841-1904).
31. Cause to become awake or conscious.
32. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
34. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
35. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
37. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. An African amulet.
42. Gone by.
45. A loud utterance.
46. Mountain avens.
48. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
49. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
54. The basic unit of money in Haiti.
56. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
58. A person of subnormal intelligence.
61. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
64. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
65. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
66. God of fire.
67. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
68. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
71. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
76. An informal term for a father.

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