Crossword Puzzle Number 3176 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
4. Any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Small East Indian shrubby mint.
17. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. A resident of Arizona.
20. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
21. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
23. Large Indian antelope.
25. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
29. Cannon of plate armor protecting the forearm.
32. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
36. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
37. A quantity of no importance.
40. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
41. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
43. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
46. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
50. Something that happens at a given place and time.
51. The basic unit of money in China.
52. Having no fever.
54. A Mid-Atlantic state.
55. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
56. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
58. Characteristic of the dawn.
61. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
62. Compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming.
70. A genus of Ploceidae.
71. A hidden drawback.
74. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
75. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
76. 1 species.
78. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
79. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
80. A republic in northwestern South America.
81. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.

DOWN

1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
5. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
6. (chemistry) Being or containing an acid.
7. One million periods per second.
8. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
9. A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century.
10. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
11. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
22. A French abbot.
24. Having leadership guidance.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. Something that is a source of danger.
28. Either extremity of something that has length.
30. A tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave.
31. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
33. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
34. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
35. Brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets.
38. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
39. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
42. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
44. South American herb with sticky glandular foliage.
45. Report or maintain.
47. Adorned by inlays.
48. A distinct feature or element in a problem.
49. Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight.
53. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
57. A covered passageway.
59. (of words) Formed in imitation of a natural sound.
60. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
63. An informal term for a father.
64. A very light brown.
65. Fallow deer.
66. A human female who does housework.
67. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
68. The sister of your father or mother.
69. Not only so, but.
72. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
73. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
77. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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