ACROSS
1. An informal term for a father.
5. Diuretic (trade name Edecrin) used to treat edema.
12. Standard temperature and pressure.
15. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
16. Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
20. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
21. (India) Absolutely first class and genuine.
23. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
24. The eleventh month of the civil year.
25. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. (archaic) Strict and severe.
31. (trademark) A thin polyester film.
33. Something that allows access (entry or exit).
35. Having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
43. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
44. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. Pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space.
47. Lacking gonads.
51. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
52. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
53. Somewhat hard.
54. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
59. (Brit) An area of open or forested country.
61. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
65. An acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor.
68. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
69. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
72. A master's degree in business.
73. The longest division of geological time.
75. Undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root.
77. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
78. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
79. A family of acrocarpous mosses.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. A periodical that summarizes the news.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. Capital of Armenia.
6. A Mid-Atlantic state.
7. A liquid solution that results from elution.
8. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
9. French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757).
10. Being one more than three.
11. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
12. An enclosed space.
13. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
14. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
19. God of death.
22. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
26. Small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods.
29. Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes.
30. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
32. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
34. A town in southwestern Idaho.
36. A stringed instrument of India.
37. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
39. Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.
41. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
42. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
46. Someone who responds.
48. Cut off the testicles.
49. A familiar name (often a shortened version of a person's given name).
50. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
55. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
56. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
58. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
60. An item inserted in a written record.
62. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
67. The content of cognition.
70. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
71. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
74. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
76. A state in midwestern United States.
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