Crossword Puzzle Number 6261 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
5. Tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia.
12. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
15. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
16. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. The capital of Western Samoa.
19. A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight.
20. In a manner differing from the usual or expected.
21. Found along western Atlantic coast.
23. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
25. An associate degree in applied science.
26. Remote and separate physically or socially.
28. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
30. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
33. A state in New England.
34. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
38. Antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
41. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
42. Occurring or payable every year.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
44. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
45. Someone who has retired from active working.
47. A bachelor's degree in science.
49. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
50. (South African) A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers).
51. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
55. A port in southwestern Scotland.
58. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
61. (informal) Exceptionally good.
62. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
65. Capital of Armenia.
69. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
70. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
75. Of or involving or caused by or being microbes.
77. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
78. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
79. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
80. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.

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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Type genus of the Nepidae.
3. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
4. Jordan's port.
5. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
6. The bottom one of two.
7. Neuralgia along the sciatic nerve.
8. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
9. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. The time during which someone's life continues.
22. A state of commotion and loud confused noise.
24. God of the earth.
27. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
29. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
31. Having a difficult and contrary disposition.
32. Used of powdery metals or ores.
35. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
36. German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896).
37. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
39. City in eastern Belgium.
40. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
46. Enthusiastic approval.
48. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
52. Learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
56. Leave a camp.
57. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
59. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
60. A trivial lie.
63. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
64. A doctor's degree in music.
66. Characteristic of false pride.
67. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
68. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
71. A state of southwestern India.
72. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
76. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.

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