Crossword Puzzle Number 678 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. Someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another.
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
16. A member of a North American Indian people of the Gila river valley in Arizona.
17. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
18. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
19. Not having or producing echoes.
20. (British) Your grandmother.
21. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
23. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
24. Himalayish language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
29. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
32. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
34. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
41. Any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants.
42. Gannets and boobies.
44. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
45. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
46. English essayist (1775-1834).
49. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
50. Joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces.
55. A state in north central United States.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. A flat situated in the wings.
60. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
64. Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736).
65. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
67. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
70. Of or relating an apse.
72. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
73. The seventh and last day of the week.
74. (formerly) A horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door.
77. Not divisible by two.
78. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
79. The process of exposing to air (so as to purify).
80. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.

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1. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. God of wealth and love.
4. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
5. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
6. A strong emotion.
7. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
8. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
9. To an excessive degree.
10. Speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation.
11. A canal for a current of water.
12. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
13. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
14. God of fire.
22. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
25. Prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels.
28. A white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing.
31. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
33. Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork.
35. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
36. Place a value on.
37. Make one's home or live in.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. A separate part of a whole.
47. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
48. German baroque composer (1681-1767).
51. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
52. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
53. An imaginary monster used to frighten children.
54. A person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant).
57. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
59. An address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service).
61. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
62. Follower of Rastafarianism.
63. A party who files a notice with a law court.
66. Any competition.
68. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
69. (prefix) Within.
71. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
75. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
76. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.

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