Crossword Puzzle Number 7641 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. An event that occurs at a critical time.
12. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
15. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
16. Iranian religious leader of the Shiites.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Having or resembling a stinger or barb.
20. That is to say.
22. Sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia.
23. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
25. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
30. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
33. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
36. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
38. (informal) Of the highest quality.
39. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
40. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
41. A state in southeastern United States.
47. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
48. Any broad thin expanse or surface.
51. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
52. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
53. The state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth.
54. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread.
55. A Mid-Atlantic state.
56. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
58. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
61. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
62. The closing section of a musical composition.
66. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
71. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
72. Long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants.
74. A general direction in which something tends to move.
75. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
76. Not necessarily inaudible but not heard.
78. American novelist (1909-1955).
79. A humorous anecdote or remark.
80. Of or relating to or near the sternum.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
2. A unit of weight used in some parts of Asia.
3. Offering safety.
4. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
5. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
6. A sheath worn to protect a finger.
7. A primeval personification of air and breath.
8. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
9. Being one more than two.
10. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
11. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
12. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
13. A very light brown.
14. A large number or amount.
19. A large city of central Poland.
21. A wind instrument.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
29. Cast again, in a different role.
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
32. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
34. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
35. Of or belonging to an enemy.
37. Abounding with or resembling weeds.
42. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
43. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
44. Big-eyed scad.
45. An autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century.
46. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
49. A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it.
50. More of the same adv.
57. Capable of being influenced or formed.
59. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
60. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
63. The ending of a series or sequence.
64. The brightest star in Cygnus.
65. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
67. English essayist (1775-1834).
68. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
69. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
70. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
73. A local computer network for communication between computers.
77. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.

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