Crossword Puzzle Number 7573 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
5. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
11. One thousandth of a second.
15. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
16. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
17. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
18. Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. A narrow way or road.
21. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
22. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
23. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
25. Characterized by slanting characters.
27. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
29. 10 grams.
30. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
31. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
32. An established custom.
36. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
39. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
41. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
42. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
45. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
48. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
49. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
55. The words of an opera or musical play.
57. Male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon.
59. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
60. Depressing in character or appearance.
61. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
65. (Norse mythology) Wife of Loki.
68. Of or relating to or characteristic of Tuscany or its people.
71. The basic unit of money in Albania.
72. Type genus of the Anatidae.
74. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
75. Being two more than ninety.
76. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
78. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
79. Informal terms for a meal.
80. Taking on different forms.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A Bantu language.
2. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
3. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
4. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
5. An enthusiastic kiss.
6. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
7. Antibiotic (trade name Lincocin) obtained from a Streptomyces bacterium and used in the treatment of certain penicillin-resistant infections.
8. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
9. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
10. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
11. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
13. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
14. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
24. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
28. An official or legal cancellation.
33. A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence.
34. A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one.
35. Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595).
37. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.
38. A person afflicted with leprosy.
40. Half the width of an em.
43. Stern foremost or backward.
44. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
46. A notice of someone's death.
47. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
50. Small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump.
52. A resident of Arkansas.
54. Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles.
56. A small cake leavened with yeast.
58. United States screenwriter who was blacklisted and imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with congressional investigations of communism in America (1905-1976).
62. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Jordan's port.
66. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
67. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
69. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
70. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
73. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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