Crossword Puzzle Number 6917 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. General who commanded the Carthaginian army in the Second Punic War.
12. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
15. The fatty flesh of eel.
16. Distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose.
17. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. The cardinal number that is the sum of six and one.
20. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
22. A tranquilizer (trade name Navane) used to treat schizophrenia.
24. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
26. Toward the mouth or oral region.
27. Being one more than fifty.
29. A large and hurried swallow.
31. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
35. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
39. The capital of Bahrain.
42. An internal representation of the world.
43. English monk and scholar (672-735).
44. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
46. Adult female chicken.
47. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
48. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
54. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
56. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
57. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
58. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
61. Player acts out a phrase for others to guess.
65. A mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text.
66. Any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers.
68. Ring or echo with sound.
72. A rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika.
75. Tag the base runner to get him out.
76. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
77. Any of various butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
79. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
80. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.

DOWN

1. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Speaking a Slavic language.
4. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
5. On or toward the lee.
6. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
7. A V-shaped indentation.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
9. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. Having leadership guidance.
12. A human female who does housework.
13. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
14. Two items of the same kind.
21. A populous province in northeastern China.
23. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
25. (trademark) An antacid.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked).
32. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
33. Located below or beneath something else.
34. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
36. Cut the head of.
37. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
38. A port city in western France on the Loire estuary.
40. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
41. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A great rani.
50. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
51. Ancient Athenian philosopher.
53. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
55. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
59. A medium for oil-paints.
60. A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste.
62. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
63. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
64. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
67. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
69. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
70. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
71. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
73. A decree that prohibits something.
74. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
78. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.

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