Crossword Puzzle Number 7658 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. The Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
12. The younger of two major political parties in the United States.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court law asking for the grievance to be redressed.
19. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
20. God of the earth.
21. A unit of pressure.
22. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
24. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
29. A ludicrously false statement.
33. A young male attendant on a Scottish Highland chief.
38. Sea catfishes.
41. An alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge.
42. A floor covering.
43. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
46. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
47. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
51. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
53. A slight indication.
55. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
57. God of love and erotic desire.
58. Denuded of leaves.
59. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. (especially of the face) Reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion.
72. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
73. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
76. The cry made by sheep.
77. The basic unit of money in Romania.
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
80. A container.
81. An advanced law degree.
82. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
83. The compass point midway between northeast and east.

DOWN

1. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
2. Containing or filled with salt.
3. Crowd or pack to capacity.
4. The lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States.
5. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
6. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
7. Comb with a heckle.
8. (prefix) Outside or outer.
9. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
10. A period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
23. United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958).
25. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
26. A descendent or heir.
30. Liquid excretory product.
31. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
35. The capital and largest city of Zambia.
36. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
37. A colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis.
39. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
40. The Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
44. Noisy talk.
45. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
50. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
52. Release or vent, as of emotions and reactions.
54. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
56. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
60. Cause to move back by force or influence.
61. State of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior.
62. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
65. Type genus of the Nepidae.
66. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
67. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. A French abbot.
70. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
71. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
74. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
75. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
79. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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