Crossword Puzzle Number 4984 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Broadly or extravagantly humorous.
12. An awkward stupid person.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Woolly aphids.
17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A mountainous region in central Italy.
20. Intense anger (usually on an epic scale).
22. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
24. A caress with the lips.
25. A liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions.
26. Gallery where works of art can be displayed.
28. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
30. The largest island in the world.
33. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
36. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
37. A genus of Cricetidae.
40. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
42. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
43. The template for protein synthesis.
44. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
45. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
48. A bottomless gulf or pit.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. Any expected deliverer.
54. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
56. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
57. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
59. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
62. Remove offensive capability from.
66. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
68. Remove the tusks of animals.
71. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
72. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
76. Regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smoothes the operation of a reciprocating engine.
78. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
79. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
80. A woman who is foreperson of a jury.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism.
5. A human limb.
6. Long and thin.
7. Very hard mineral used as an abrasive.
8. Goddess of fertility.
9. The shore of a sea or ocean.
10. Before noon.
11. An officer of the law.
12. Talk pompously.
13. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
14. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
21. A liquid preparation used on wet hair to it a tint.
23. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
27. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran and who invaded Kuwait (born in 1937).
31. Commercially important fish of the North American Pacific coast.
32. Serving no useful purpose.
34. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
35. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
38. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
39. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
41. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
46. Being one more than one.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. Happening unexpectedly.
50. English philologist (1835-1912).
53. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
55. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
58. Tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains.
60. Perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America.
61. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
63. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
64. The compass point that is one point south of southwest.
65. A Berber living in northern Morocco.
67. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
73. An affirmative.
77. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.

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