Crossword Puzzle Number 4890 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
5. Someone who abuses.
11. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
15. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
16. A surface coating for ceramics or porcelain.
17. An Eskimo hut.
18. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
20. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
21. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
22. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
23. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
25. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
28. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
36. Held in slavery.
41. Type genus of the Anatidae.
42. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
48. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
49. Appeal or request earnestly.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
54. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
56. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
62. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
65. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
68. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
70. Aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver.
73. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
74. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
75. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
76. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
77. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
78. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
79. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.

DOWN

1. A person of French descent.
2. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
3. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
4. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes.
7. Goddess of dawn.
9. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
10. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
11. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
12. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
13. Turn sharply.
14. Used in combination.
19. Of or pertaining to the branch of Shinto recognized as the state religion of Japan.
24. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
26. Of or relating to or containing balsam.
27. A person who possesses great material wealth.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
34. A city in southern Malawi.
35. The sound made by a horse.
37. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
38. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A large quantity of written matter.
43. A formal expression of praise.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. A demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together.
50. State clearly.
53. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
55. The cry made by sheep.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
60. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
64. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
67. An utterance made by exhaling audibly.
69. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
71. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
72. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.

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