Crossword Puzzle Number 6680 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
4. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
11. Avatar of Vishnu.
15. (Babylonian) The sky god.
16. Of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era).
17. Armor plate that protects the chest.
18. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
20. The present occasion.
21. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
22. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
23. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
25. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
26. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
28. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
34. A pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.
36. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
37. On, to, or at the top.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
42. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
44. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. (anatomy) A natural hollow or sinus within the body.
49. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
51. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
55. A large number or amount.
57. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables.
59. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
60. Advance evidence for.
62. A covered passageway.
64. Not stale or old.
65. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
66. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
70. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
71. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
75. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
79. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
80. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
81. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.

DOWN

1. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
4. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
5. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
6. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
7. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
8. Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
9. Covered with paving material.
10. Used of a single unit or thing.
11. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
12. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
13. Small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains.
14. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
19. German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947).
24. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
27. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
29. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
30. Speaking a Slavic language.
31. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
32. Manner of acting or conducting yourself.
33. The sound like water splashing.
35. The act of escaping physically.
38. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
41. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
43. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
47. A cephalosporin antibiotic (trade name Ultracef).
48. Informal terms for a mother.
50. Multiple collisions of vehicles.
52. (prosody) The accent in a metrical foot of verse.
53. An onerous or difficult concern.
54. An ancient board game resembling backgammon.
56. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
58. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
61. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
63. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
67. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
68. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
72. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
73. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A state in the Rocky Mountains.

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