Crossword Puzzle Number 640 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
4. Someone whose occupation is printing.
12. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. Extreme gluttony.
17. Seek someone's favor.
18. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
19. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
20. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
22. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
24. School of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
27. A city in east central Texas.
29. A person who makes demands.
32. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
33. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
37. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
41. A university in Connecticut.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. The longest division of geological time.
46. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. Compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom.
55. Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something.
58. Perfume esp. with a censer.
59. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
60. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
61. A Loloish language.
63. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
66. Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence.
70. Offering fun and gaiety.
71. Being seven more than fifty.
74. Of or relating to or belonging to the body.
75. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
78. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
79. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. A doctor's degree in education.

DOWN

1. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
2. Offering little or no hope.
3. Witnessed at first hand.
4. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
5. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
6. Any external parasitic organism (as fleas).
7. Fill to satisfaction.
8. Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as on a wave.
9. Used in combination to denote the middle.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. An antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State.
12. A grant made by a law court.
13. (psychiatry) A psychological disorder of thought or emotion.
14. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
21. A group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast.
23. Not in a state of sleep.
25. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
30. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
31. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
34. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. Not only so, but.
38. Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974).
39. A period of time assigned for work.
40. A hard copal derived from an African tree.
42. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
43. Softly bright or radiant.
47. Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores.
49. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
50. Regional and archaic.
52. The brightest star in Virgo.
54. 1 species.
56. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.
57. Of or relating to Fabianism.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A quantity of no importance.
65. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
67. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
68. A compact mass.
69. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
72. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
73. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
76. A person forced to flee from home or country.
77. A state in New England.

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