Crossword Puzzle Number 7928 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
5. A hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover.
12. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
15. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
16. Minute wingless arthropods.
17. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
18. Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects.
20. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
22. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
24. The force of workers available.
26. Very large white gannet with black wing tips.
27. A genus of Ploceidae.
28. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
30. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
31. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
32. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
36. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
40. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
41. A loud harsh or strident noise.
43. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. Marked by a rhythmical cadence.
46. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
48. (informal) Roused to anger.
49. Highly excited.
50. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
53. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
56. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
57. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
58. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
59. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
61. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
69. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
70. A port and fashionable resort city on southern Mexico's Pacific coast.
73. The cry made by sheep.
74. A light touch or stroke.
75. Of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream.
76. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
77. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. Noisy talk.

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1. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
2. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
3. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
4. The larger of the two satellites of Mars.
5. Type genus of the Spalacidae.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
8. A token that postal fees have been paid.
9. Elaborately or excessively ornamented.
10. The father of your father or mother.
11. An awkward stupid person.
12. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
13. Lacking excess flesh.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Relafen).
23. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
25. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
29. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
33. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
34. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
35. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
37. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
38. A Greek island west of Greece.
39. Any taillike structure.
42. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
44. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
47. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
52. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
60. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
68. Noisy talk.

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