Crossword Puzzle Number 7445 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
4. Reflect light or colors like an opal.
12. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
15. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
16. The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death).
17. Towards the side away from the wind.
18. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
19. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
20. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
22. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
26. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
28. A formal message requesting something submitted to an authority.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. Any plant of the genus Erica.
34. Meat from an adult domestic bovine.
37. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
41. Genus of perennial rhizomatous herb of southern and southeastern United States.
44. Big-eyed scad.
45. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
49. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
50. (informal) Of the highest quality.
51. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
56. A primeval personification of air and breath.
57. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
59. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
61. A Russian river.
64. A high place.
67. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
68. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
70. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
71. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
74. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
75. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
77. A branch of the Tai languages.
78. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
79. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
80. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.

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1. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
2. In bed.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
5. Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980).
6. The second largest continent.
7. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
8. Having escaped, especially from confinement.
9. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
10. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
11. Of or relating to or consisting of enol.
12. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
13. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
14. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
21. Selling or related to selling direct to the consumer.
23. Type genus of the Mobulidae.
27. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
29. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
31. An assembly of witches.
35. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783).
36. Foul with waste matter.
38. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
39. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
40. Produced by a manufacturing process.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
43. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
46. Poisonous herbs.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
55. Of an instrument of certain death.
58. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
60. A wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish.
62. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
63. The univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom.
65. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
66. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
69. A sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information.
72. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
73. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
76. Being nine more than forty.

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