Crossword Puzzle Number 580 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.
4. The opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared.
12. A boy or man.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A sandal with flat heels and an upper of woven leather straps.
17. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
18. A warning against certain acts.
19. Be in accord.
20. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
21. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
24. 16 ounces.
26. God of love and erotic desire.
27. A permanent council of the United Nations.
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
31. That is to say.
33. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
35. A cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas.
38. Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity).
42. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
43. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
46. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
47. A filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works.
48. A sign of something about to happen.
50. A state of southwestern India.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
54. The capital of Bahrain.
58. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
60. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
62. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
66. An extinct volcano in south central Honshu.
69. Above the surround or above the normal position.
70. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
73. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
75. The capital of Australia.
78. (British) Your grandmother.
79. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
80. Of or relating to antennae.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A city in east central Texas.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy.
4. A boy or man.
5. Not in.
6. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
8. A motley assortment of things.
9. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
10. Unlicensed drinking establishment.
11. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
12. Chief port and economic center of Nigeria.
13. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
14. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
25. A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate.
28. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
30. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
32. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
34. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
36. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
37. Being one more than fifty.
39. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
40. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
41. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
44. The largest city of Cameroon.
45. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
49. A tributary of the Missouri River.
53. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
55. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
56. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
57. A port city in southwestern Iran.
59. The cry made by sheep.
61. A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence.
63. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
68. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
71. Range of what one can know or understand.
72. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
76. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
77. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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