Crossword Puzzle Number 7688 (Medium Grid)

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1. (music) Composed or performed by a single voice or instrument.
5. Moving upward and forward in a quick motion or series of motions.
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
16. Covering designed to be worn on a person's body.
17. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
18. Deeply moved.
19. Having a margin with rounded scallops.
20. A small piece of cloth.
21. All the plant life in a particular region.
23. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
24. Jordan's port.
26. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
28. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
32. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
38. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
45. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
46. Wood of a sumac.
49. An advanced law degree.
50. A fighter who batters the opponent.
51. Former usage synonymous with Antedon.
53. (prefix) Within.
54. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
57. (Greek mythology) The husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
58. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
72. Provide with a canal, as of a city.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. British informal term.
77. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
78. A form of address for a married woman.
79. Used of a single unit or thing.
80. Dependent on chance.
81. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.

DOWN

1. (medieval Europe) A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
4. A tax on various goods brought into a town.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
6. (computer science) A read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data.
7. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
8. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
9. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
10. Remaining after all deductions.
11. Someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters.
12. A colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon.
13. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
14. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
22. Capable of being added or added to.
25. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
29. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
30. A large number or amount.
31. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
35. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
36. A large stringed instrument.
37. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
39. (Welsh) A warrior god.
40. A town in central Belgium.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
47. Fiddler crabs.
48. Flattery intended to persuade.
52. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
59. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
61. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
62. A person afflicted with leprosy.
64. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
65. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
66. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
67. A thin strip (wood or metal).
68. God of love and erotic desire.
69. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
70. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
73. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

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