Crossword Puzzle Number 6812 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
4. An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc.
11. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
19. Careful and sensible.
20. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
21. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
23. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
25. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
29. Of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey).
32. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
35. How much of something is available.
37. With anger.
39. An evil spirit.
42. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
43. A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.
45. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
50. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
51. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
53. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
56. Fiddler crabs.
58. The act of scanning.
60. Found in the ordinary course of events.
64. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
68. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
69. Having winglike extensions.
72. Of or relating to alga.
73. Fraught with extreme danger.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
77. Again but in a new or different way.
78. Loss of the ability to swallow.
79. An affirmative.

DOWN

1. A long flag.
2. English monk and scholar (672-735).
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
5. Discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization, in psychoanalysis.
6. Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926).
7. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
8. Chief port of Yemen.
9. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
10. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
11. Arranged in or consisting of laminae.
12. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
13. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
14. A Spanish river.
22. Know or grasp by intuition or feeling.
24. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
26. Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
27. A female giant.
28. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
30. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
31. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
33. Type genus of the Clupeidae.
34. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
40. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
41. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
48. Made of or resembling lace.
52. Large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family.
54. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
55. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
57. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. Characteristic of false pride.
62. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
63. A city in northwestern Syria.
65. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
66. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
67. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
70. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
71. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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