Crossword Puzzle Number 7817 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. United States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860).
12. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
15. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
16. Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. By bad luck.
20. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
21. Squash bugs.
23. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
25. New Year's Eve in Scotland.
28. A genus of Scarabaeidae.
31. Being one more than fifty.
32. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
33. Cause to be bitter or resentful.
37. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
40. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
41. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
42. Give a description of.
44. Difficult to please.
45. Constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches.
46. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
48. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
49. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
50. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
51. Large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic.
54. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
55. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
58. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
59. Hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
64. Tighten one's belt.
70. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
71. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
73. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
74. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
75. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
77. Black tropical American cuckoo.
78. A primeval personification of air and breath.
79. A festival featuring African-American culture.
80. A slight amount or degree of difference.

DOWN

1. The skin that covers the top of the head.
2. An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord.
3. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
4. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
5. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
6. Type genus of the Otariidae.
7. The site of an archeological exploration.
8. Not only so, but.
9. Half the width of an em.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. A large quantity of written matter.
12. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
13. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
14. A low heavy horsecart without sides.
19. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves.
22. One of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits.
27. A clothing fabric in a plaid weave.
29. Any oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.
30. Anything of material value or usefulness.
34. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
35. Do something to an excessive degree.
36. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
38. Emperor of Rome who introduced a degree of freedom after the repressive reign of Domitian.
39. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
43. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
47. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
52. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns.
53. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
56. Someone who operates an aircraft.
57. Remove the claws from (a cat).
60. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
61. A light informal meal.
62. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
66. An account describing incidents or events.
67. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
68. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
69. A town in north central Oklahoma.
72. A container.
76. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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