Crossword Puzzle Number 3412 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa.
12. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. Of or relating to the wrist.
20. A notable achievement.
22. A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).
24. A state in New England.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
26. A native of ancient Troy.
27. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
29. Cut off the testicles.
31. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
33. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. A state in midwestern United States.
35. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
43. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
47. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
49. Capital and largest city of Yugoslavia.
50. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
52. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
53. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
60. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. A genus of Lamnidae.
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
74. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
78. A three-year law degree.
79. Neuralgia along the sciatic nerve.
80. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.

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1. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
2. By bad luck.
3. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
4. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
5. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up.
6. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
7. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
8. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
9. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
10. Having help.
11. A state in southeastern United States.
12. A domain in which something is dominant.
13. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
14. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
19. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. Fallow deer.
23. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
32. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
36. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. United States chemist (1839-1903).
39. Small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains.
40. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
41. A woman of refinement.
42. A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures.
44. Give over.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. The father of your father or mother.
48. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. Large Indian antelope.
56. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
62. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
64. A city in northern India.
65. Being precisely fitting and right.
67. Framework for holding objects.
68. Again but in a new or different way.
69. God of death.
71. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
72. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. Being nine more than ninety.

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