Crossword Puzzle Number 6990 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
5. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
12. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. A region in northmost Europe inhabited by Lapps.
17. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
18. Inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold.
19. An unsteady uneven gait.
20. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
21. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. A fee charged for the use of pipes.
26. An enclosed space.
28. Covered with paving material.
29. A bachelor's degree in science.
31. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
33. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
36. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
37. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
40. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
44. A breast-shaped mass of padding worn in a brassiere.
46. A state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer.
47. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
48. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
49. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
50. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
54. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
57. Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.
60. (informal) Of the highest quality.
63. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
65. The capital and largest city of Nepal.
67. The capital and largest city of Austria.
71. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
72. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core.
77. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
79. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
80. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
81. Make glad or happy.
82. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.

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1. The handle of a weapon or tool.
2. 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.
3. A large number or amount.
4. Away from the mouth or oral region.
5. In addition.
6. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
7. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
8. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
9. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
10. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
11. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan.
12. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
13. Type genus of the Triglidae.
14. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
22. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
25. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Spherical gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies.
32. One thousandth of a second.
35. On or toward the lee.
38. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
39. A light touch or stroke.
41. Found near the Channel Islands.
42. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
43. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
45. A fraudulent business scheme.
51. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
55. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
56. United States writer (born in 1933).
58. A proposal for an appropriate course of action.
59. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
61. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
62. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
64. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
66. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
68. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
69. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
70. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
73. Goddess of fate.
74. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
78. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.

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