Crossword Puzzle Number 7648 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An enclosed space.
4. United States writer (born 1919).
12. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
15. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
16. Preceding all others in time.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. Pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A farewell remark.
23. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
24. Jordan's port.
27. Costing 6 cents (United States) or 6 pence (Britain).
29. A populous province in northeastern China.
31. A member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas.
32. Before noon.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. By bad luck.
39. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
40. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
41. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
45. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
46. (Irish) Goddess.
48. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
51. Razor clams.
52. An edging of small loops, as on lace or ribbon.
55. A small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye.
57. The father of your father or mother.
59. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
61. God of fire.
62. The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. A benign tumor composed of muscle tissue.
72. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
73. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
75. European fishes.
77. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
78. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
79. Enact or perform again.
80. An audiotape recording of sound.

DOWN

1. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
2. A genus of Indriidae.
3. Large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins.
4. Someone who refrains from injuring or destroying.
5. Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism (1560-1609).
6. Tasting sour like a lemon.
7. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
8. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
9. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
10. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
12. 1/1000 gram.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
22. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. In football.
30. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
34. Someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult).
35. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
37. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
38. Lower in esteem.
42. Lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance.
43. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
44. Highly excited.
47. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. A person being ordained.
53. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
54. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
56. Of or relating to the palm of the hand.
58. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
60. By chance.
63. In bed.
64. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
65. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
66. Avatar of Vishnu.
67. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
68. Having relatively few calories.
71. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
74. After noon.
76. Being nine more than ninety.

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