Crossword Puzzle Number 660 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
4. A sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket.
11. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
15. Being two more than fifty.
16. New Guinea echidnas.
17. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
18. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
20. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
23. Top part of an apron.
24. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
25. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
29. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
30. A deep bow.
33. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. A Hindu prince or king in India.
41. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
44. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
46. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
47. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
49. A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes.
51. Being of the age 13 through 19.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
54. God of fire.
58. A province in north-central China.
61. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
62. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
65. Seed again or anew.
68. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
70. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
71. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
74. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
75. Being one more than two.
76. An advocate of rural living.
78. Goddess of fate.
79. Having leadership guidance.
80. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
81. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.

DOWN

1. The noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash adv.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. Candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers.
8. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
9. Used of a single unit or thing.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
11. Someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables.
12. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
13. German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome.
14. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1.
19. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
26. Before noon.
28. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system.
31. Lower in esteem.
32. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
34. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
36. Oil palms.
37. A circular segment of a curve.
39. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
40. On or toward the lee.
42. An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme.
43. Used of the language of the deaf.
45. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
48. French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851).
50. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
55. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
56. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
57. A vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song).
59. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
60. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
63. A liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions.
64. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
66. Material used to daub walls.
67. A branch of the Tai languages.
69. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
72. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
73. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
77. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.

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