Crossword Puzzle Number 6648 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
4. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
12. 32nd President of the United States.
15. A negative.
16. Goat grass.
17. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
18. Anything of material value or usefulness.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
22. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
23. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
24. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
26. The lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States.
29. A penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci.
31. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
35. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. A Loloish language.
42. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
45. Aimlessly drifting.
46. The fatty flesh of eel.
47. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
50. A fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean.
53. A loss of will power.
57. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
60. Cause to be attached.
61. Slanderous defamation.
64. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
66. (Greek mythology) A Titaness and sea goddess.
68. Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men.
72. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
73. A quantum of electromagnetic radiation.
76. Type genus of the Gavidae.
77. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
78. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
80. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
81. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
82. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
83. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.

DOWN

1. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
2. A Bantu language.
3. United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (born in 1966).
4. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
5. Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC).
6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
7. The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length.
8. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
9. A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific.
10. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
11. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
12. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
13. Dearly loved.
14. Not widely known.
25. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
27. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
28. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
30. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
32. A state in midwestern United States.
33. A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa.
34. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
36. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
37. Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
43. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. A state in the western United States.
52. Large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia.
54. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
55. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
56. A city in central New York.
58. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
62. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
63. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
65. Type genus of the Manidae.
67. Adopted in order to deceive.
69. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
70. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
71. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
74. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
75. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
79. A state in New England.

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