Crossword Puzzle Number 6698 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
11. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. Determined by mathematical computation.
17. A town in north central Oklahoma.
18. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
20. Compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming.
21. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
23. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
24. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil.
25. Female equine animal.
28. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
30. Italian theologian who argued against trinitarianism (1539-1604).
33. Marked by extreme anger.
37. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
38. Any plant of the genus Erica.
39. Softly bright or radiant.
43. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
48. A woman of refinement.
50. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
52. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
53. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
55. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
56. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. Jordan's port.
65. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
67. Any acid that contains oxygen.
71. A ribbon used as a decoration.
73. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
75. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
76. Used of a single unit or thing.
77. Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins).
79. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
80. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
81. Oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them.
82. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.

DOWN

1. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
6. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
7. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
8. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. A number that is added to another number (the augend).
11. The kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text.
12. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
13. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
14. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
19. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
22. Something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary).
26. A fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role.
27. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
29. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
31. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
32. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
34. The seventh month of the civil year.
35. A permanent council of the United Nations.
36. Any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers.
40. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
41. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
45. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
47. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
49. Jordan's port.
51. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
54. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
58. A province in north-central China.
60. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
61. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
63. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
64. In bed.
66. A professional cook.
68. Being one more than twelve.
69. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
70. Slightly wet.
72. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
74. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
78. An informal term for a father.

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