Crossword Puzzle Number 4480 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. An executioner who beheads the condemned person.
12. Tag the base runner to get him out.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
18. Cause to go crazy.
19. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
26. With no effort to conceal.
28. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
35. A large entrance or reception room or area.
39. Using speech rather than writing.
41. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
42. An informal term for a father.
43. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
44. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. Weapon consisting of a fighting ax.
53. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
56. An associate degree in nursing.
57. A unit of weight used in Asia.
60. Treated with wax.
63. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
65. (British) A lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
67. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
71. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
72. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
75. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
76. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
77. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
79. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
80. The basic unit of money in Albania.
81. A great raja.
82. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.

DOWN

1. Trace the shape of.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
4. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
5. The longest division of geological time.
6. A state in northwestern North America.
7. Having a hemispherical vault or dome.
8. A public entertainment or exhibition.
9. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
10. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
11. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
12. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
13. The sixth month of the civil year.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
22. An informal term for a father.
23. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
24. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
25. Being nine more than ninety.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. A saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels.
30. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
31. A quantity of no importance.
32. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
33. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
34. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
36. Not only so, but.
37. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
38. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines.
40. A reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction.
46. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
54. A festival featuring African-American culture.
55. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
58. A state in southeastern United States.
59. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
61. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
62. Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.
64. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
66. Belonging to some prior time.
68. A bachelor's degree in music.
69. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
70. Offering fun and gaiety.
73. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
74. The month following March and preceding May.
78. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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