Crossword Puzzle Number 4679 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
5. The Siouan language spoken by the Iowa and Oto and Missouri people.
12. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
15. Armor plate that protects the chest.
16. Type genus of the Solanaceae.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. A genus of Laridae.
20. Something that resembles a pill in shape or size.
21. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
22. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.
23. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
26. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
28. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
31. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
32. The ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary.
36. Standard temperature and pressure.
39. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
41. South American cavy.
42. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
45. Of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula.
46. Shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive.
47. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
51. A branch of the Tai languages.
54. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
56. Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
58. A narrow way or road.
59. Having much flesh (especially fat).
61. A city in east central Texas.
63. Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Andira.
67. A unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry.
71. The cry made by sheep.
72. A substance derived from amygdalin.
75. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
76. The capital and largest city of Japan.
77. Denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java.
79. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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1. A Russian unit of length (1.067 km).
2. Moving quickly and lightly.
3. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
4. State categorically.
5. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
6. Twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
7. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
8. A severe blow v 1.
9. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
10. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
11. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
12. 11th President of the United States.
13. The highest level or degree attainable.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. A short synopsis.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor.
27. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
29. A tube with a small bowl at one end.
30. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
33. A large fleet.
34. An immunoglobulin E that is formed as an antibody against allergens (such as pollen).
35. A large and stately mansion.
37. A city in southeastern South Korea.
38. Of or relating to punishment.
40. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
43. Use explosives on.
44. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
48. An awkward stupid person.
52. Of or relating to the kingdom of Kuwait or its people.
53. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
55. A fast gait of a horse.
57. 1 species.
60. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
62. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
64. A quantity of no importance.
65. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
66. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
68. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
69. A sudden short attack.
70. A university in Connecticut.
73. Being one more than nine.
74. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.

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