Crossword Puzzle Number 7880 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. 10 grams.
4. Able to walk about.
12. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Testacean rhizopods.
17. An accountant certified by the state.
18. East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed.
20. Find repugnant.
21. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. Being one more than one.
26. Deciduous shrub of North America.
28. A Loloish language.
29. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
31. German hero.
34. (football) The person who plays tailback.
38. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
40. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of Syria or its people or culture.
43. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
45. Having been read.
47. At or constituting a border or edge.
48. Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907).
51. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
56. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
58. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
60. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
62. Chief port of Yemen.
65. City in Sudan.
67. A Nilotic language.
70. (informal) Exceptionally good.
71. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
72. Not softened by the addition of padding.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. 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.
77. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
78. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
80. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
81. Either extremity of something that has length.
82. An active volcano in southeastern Colombia in the Andes.
83. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot.
2. An island of Hawaii northwest of Oahu.
3. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
4. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
5. One of the three Furies.
6. A bachelor's degree in science.
7. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
8. The mints.
9. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
10. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
11. Without speed.
12. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. Having the slant of a bevel.
27. Produced by inbreeding.
30. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
32. An incorrect deal.
33. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
35. A resource.
36. An athlete who plays basketball.
37. Make uniform.
39. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
41. A genus of Scolopacidae.
44. Border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug).
46. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
49. A genus of ducks.
50. (botany) Of or relating to or resembling a calyx.
52. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
57. A Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon.
59. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
61. The vein in the center of a leaf.
63. Emptying accomplished by draining.
64. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
66. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
74. A periodic paperback publication.
75. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
79. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

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