Crossword Puzzle Number 3179 (Medium Grid)

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1. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
4. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
12. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
15. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
16. Without forethought or plan.
17. Black tropical American cuckoo.
18. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
19. A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players.
20. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
21. Cause to adhere.
23. Be foolish or senile due to old age.
25. Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering.
27. A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643).
29. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
30. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
33. Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium.
37. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
39. Read anew.
40. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
43. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
44. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. A toothed metal band driven by two wheels.
51. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
53. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
54. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
55. The eleventh month of the civil year.
57. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
59. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
61. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
64. Hardy breed from Ayr Scotland.
69. The capital of Morocco.
72. The sixth month of the civil year.
73. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
74. Make larger.
76. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
77. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).
78. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
79. The income arising from land or other property.

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1. Repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning.
2. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century).
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. (Brit) Monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
7. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
8. A city in central Tanzania.
9. A person who delivers a speech or oration.
10. Type genus of the Gelechiidae.
11. The sign language used in the United States.
12. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
13. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
14. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
22. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
24. A tradesman who sells hosiery (and (in England) knitwear).
26. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
28. An unforeseen obstacle.
31. Sudanese sorghums having white seeds.
32. Without moral standards or principles.
34. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
35. A particular environment or walk of life.
36. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
38. A substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture).
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. The act of swimming.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
49. Under the influence of a sedative drug.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. Being or passing over or across the sea.
56. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
58. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
60. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. Be obedient to.
65. United States baseball player (born 1925).
66. The content of cognition.
67. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
68. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
70. Any high mountain.
71. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
75. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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