Crossword Puzzle Number 2780 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bahrain or its people or language.
12. Inquire about.
15. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
16. Surgical removal of a body part or tissue.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A permanent council of the United Nations.
20. United or combined.
21. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
26. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. (of characters in literature or drama) Evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings.
36. The capital of Western Samoa.
37. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
41. Seed of a pea plant.
42. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
43. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. A Russian river.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
50. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
55. (informal) Roused to anger.
62. Obvious and dull.
65. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
69. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
70. Coelenterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals.
74. An associate degree in applied science.
75. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
78. A master's degree in business.
79. A city in southwestern California east of Los Angeles.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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1. A branch of the Tai languages.
2. Belonging to some prior time.
3. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
7. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
8. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
9. Being one more than two.
10. The present occasion.
11. The basic unit of money in Peru.
12. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
13. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
14. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
19. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
23. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
25. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
27. A mass of undifferentiated cells from with an organ or body part develops.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
32. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
34. (South African) An ear of corn.
35. A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
38. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
39. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
40. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
45. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. At the present or from now on.
53. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
56. Before noon.
57. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
58. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
59. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
60. A motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine.
61. Any of various brown and yellow finches of pats of Europe.
63. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
64. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
66. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
67. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
68. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
71. An accountant certified by the state.
72. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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