Crossword Puzzle Number 4788 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. A graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension.
12. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
15. Wood of a yew.
16. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
17. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
18. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
20. Highly excited.
21. A genus of Platalea.
23. Mason wasps.
26. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
29. A state in the western United States.
32. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
34. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
38. A small lump or protuberance.
41. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
42. The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time.
44. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
45. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
46. An airfoil that controls lateral motion.
48. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
50. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
51. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
52. An honorary degree in science.
54. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
55. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
56. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
60. A state in midwestern United States.
61. A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting.
62. Property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business.
66. Someone who rejects the established culture.
70. French painter noted for brightly colored scenes (1877-1953).
71. Call forth.
74. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
75. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
76. English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913).
77. A word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing.
78. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
79. Occurring or payable every year.
80. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.

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1. Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite.
2. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
3. The act of swimming.
4. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. Squash bugs.
7. An udder or breast or teat.
8. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
9. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
12. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
13. English essayist (1775-1834).
14. By bad luck.
19. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
22. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
24. The square of a body of any size of type.
25. The capital of Western Samoa.
27. The act of scanning.
28. Advanced in years.
30. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
31. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
33. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
35. A deep bow.
36. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
37. Ground snakes.
39. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.
40. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
43. Being nothing more than specified.
47. In an ornate manner.
49. In an adroit manner.
53. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
57. Sloping upward.
58. A change for the better.
59. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
63. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
64. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
65. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
67. An implement used in the practice of a vocation.
68. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
69. Type genus of the Ranidae.
72. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
73. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.

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