Crossword Puzzle Number 2846 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
4. 1 species.
11. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
15. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
16. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease.
17. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
18. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
19. Violently angry and destructive behavior.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
21. Situated in a particular spot or position.
23. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
25. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
26. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
28. A white trivalent metallic element.
30. Your general store of remembered information.
32. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.
34. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
37. A successful womanizer (after a fictional seducer).
41. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
43. A soft silvery metallic element.
44. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
45. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
46. Having been read.
48. A closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it.
51. A sudden very loud noise.
53. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
54. Coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood.
55. The Teutonic goddess of fertility.
56. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
59. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
60. One who denies.
62. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
67. Capable of being corrupted.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. A region in southeastern Italy on the Adriatic.
74. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
75. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
76. Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
78. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
80. A youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s.
81. The residue that remains when something is burned.

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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
6. An advanced law degree.
7. An official at a baseball game.
8. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
9. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
10. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
11. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
12. Squash bugs.
13. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
14. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
22. A large stringed instrument.
24. A hole (usually with a flush cover) through which a person can gain access to an underground structure.
27. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
29. A baby bed with sides and rockers.
31. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
33. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
35. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
36. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
38. The basic unit of money in Sri Lanka.
39. A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one.
40. A drama set to music.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. (Greek mythology) An Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos.
49. Being seven more than fifty.
50. Produced by inbreeding.
52. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
57. Intelligence derived from the interception and processing and analysis of foreign telemetry.
58. Deprive of certain characteristics.
61. United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971).
63. Very dark black.
64. A quantity of no importance.
65. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
66. A reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth.
68. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
70. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
73. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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