Crossword Puzzle Number 4079 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
5. Panic grass.
12. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
15. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
16. Enduring strength and energy.
17. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
18. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
20. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
22. (music) The system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written.
24. The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. Rank-smelling tropical American pigweed.
29. True antelopes.
33. A bluish shade of green.
36. Congenital absence of an arm or leg.
39. A North American river.
41. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
42. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
43. An aperture or hole opening into a bodily cavity.
44. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
45. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
47. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
49. Type genus of the Ranidae.
51. Any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan.
54. An African amulet.
57. English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents.
58. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.
61. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
63. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
65. 1 species.
69. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
70. Frightened into submission or compliance.
73. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
74. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
75. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
77. A notable achievement.
78. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
79. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
80. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. The froth produced by soaps or detergents.
2. Make a plat of.
3. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
4. Concluding state of pregnancy.
5. A unit of pressure.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. A tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
9. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
10. Lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance.
11. East Asian perennial herbs.
12. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
13. A sharp blow.
14. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
19. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
23. Be obliged to pay or repay.
25. A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
28. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
31. Someone who eats no animal products at all.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Part of a dress above the waist.
35. Marked by deception.
37. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
38. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
40. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
46. A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809).
48. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
50. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
52. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
53. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
55. A motley assortment of things.
56. A state in New England.
59. Enthusiastic approval.
60. A social division of (usually preliterate) people.
62. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
64. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
66. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
67. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
68. A quantity of no importance.
71. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
72. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
76. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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