Crossword Puzzle Number 7653 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
4. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
12. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
15. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
16. The area in which something exists or lives.
17. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
18. American Revolutionary patriot.
20. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
22. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
25. A puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across.
26. True cuttlefishes.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
28. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
31. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
35. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
36. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
40. A genus of Acrididae.
43. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds).
44. The basic unit of money in Albania.
45. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
48. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
49. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
52. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
55. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
57. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
59. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
60. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
62. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
63. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
66. Pierced with with a pointed weapon.
70. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
71. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
74. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
75. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
76. A drug (trade name Capoten) that blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kidneys resulting in vasodilation.
78. Being two more than fifty.
79. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
80. A festival featuring African-American culture.
81. The fatty flesh of eel.

DOWN

1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
3. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
4. Someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination).
5. An associate degree in nursing.
6. A state in the western United States.
7. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
8. A covered passageway.
9. Spanish poet and dramatist (1898-1936).
10. Not upright in position or posture.
11. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
12. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
13. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
14. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
19. The capital of Lesotho.
21. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
23. A quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water) v 1.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. A player who kicks the football.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. United States admiral of the Pacific fleet during World War II who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy (1885-1966).
34. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
39. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
41. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
42. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
46. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
47. Enthusiastic approval.
50. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
53. A cry of praise or adoration (to God).
54. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
56. A person of Polish descent.
58. Artificial and inferior.
61. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
64. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
65. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
67. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
68. 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.
69. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
72. An accountant certified by the state.
73. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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