Crossword Puzzle Number 6282 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
4. Someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice.
12. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. The force applied to a unit area of surface.
17. 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.
18. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
19. Farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle).
20. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
21. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
23. A resident of Iowa.
25. European annual with pale rose-colored flowers.
28. A heavy precious metallic element.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
33. Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
41. An informal term for a father.
44. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
47. Very dark black.
49. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
51. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
52. Type genus of the Ranidae.
53. Jordan's port.
55. Most important element.
56. A member of the Salish people in northwestern Washington.
59. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
60. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
61. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
62. 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.
65. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
72. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
76. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
78. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
79. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

DOWN

1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
2. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
3. Of a pale purple color.
4. Spread out irregularly.
5. Highly concentrated or intense.
6. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
7. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
8. The residue that remains when something is burned.
9. United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914).
10. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
11. The provincial capital and largest city of Saskatchewan.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
14. A genus of Lamnidae.
22. Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns.
24. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
26. The cry made by sheep.
27. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
29. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
32. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
34. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
35. The content of cognition.
37. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
38. (Norse mythology) Race of ancient gods sometimes in conflict with the Aesir.
39. Complacently or inanely foolish.
42. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
43. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
46. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
48. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
50. An accidental happening.
54. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
57. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
58. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
63. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
64. English monk and scholar (672-735).
66. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. Capital of Vanuatu.
69. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
70. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
71. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
73. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
77. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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