Crossword Puzzle Number 3075 (Medium Grid)

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1. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
4. A family of small soft-bodied insects that feed on decaying vegetation.
12. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
15. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
16. A Spanish courtesy title for a girl or unmarried woman.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx.
20. A drill for penetrating rock.
21. A boy or man.
22. Not only so, but.
23. A loud resonant repeating noise.
25. A state in New England.
27. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
29. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
31. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
34. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
37. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
38. That is to say.
42. A small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage.
45. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
46. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
47. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
48. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
49. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
52. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
54. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
55. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
58. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
60. A Hindu prince or king in India.
66. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
71. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
72. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
75. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
76. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
79. The capital of Western Samoa.
80. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
81. God of wisdom or prophesy.
82. Humble in spirit or manner.

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1. Work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons.
2. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
4. A unit of pressure.
5. Sottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721).
6. In operation or operational.
7. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element.
8. Extremely robust.
9. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
10. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
11. Identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal.
12. Of definite shape and volume.
13. The act of scanning.
14. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
19. The female or generative principle.
24. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
26. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
28. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
30. A blank gap or missing part.
32. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
33. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
35. (dentistry) A filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. Take away the weapons from.
41. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
43. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
44. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
50. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
56. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
57. Unknown god.
59. Sharp piercing cry.
61. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
62. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
63. Having a dusky brownish gray color.
64. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
65. Anything that covers or conceals.
67. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. The middle of the day.
69. 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.
70. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
73. (informal) Of the highest quality.
74. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
78. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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