Crossword Puzzle Number 7979 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

4. An unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
16. Having no fever.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
19. Of a ceramic surface.
20. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
21. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
23. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
25. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
26. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
27. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
29. An associate degree in nursing.
32. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
36. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
40. A form of address for a man.
41. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
42. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
43. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
45. Young owl.
47. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
49. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
50. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
51. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
55. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
59. Make lighter or brighter.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
64. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
65. A collection of Psalms for liturgical use.
70. A state of refreshing tranquility.
73. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
76. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
79. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
80. Any material used especially to protect something.
81. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.

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1. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
2. Not in action or at work.
3. German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716).
4. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
5. The second largest continent.
6. A Protestant layman who assists the minister.
7. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
8. Irritate or vex.
9. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
10. On or toward the lee.
11. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded.
12. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
13. Similar to the color of fresh grass.
14. An honorary arts degree.
22. Being connected or associated.
24. Having winglike extensions.
28. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
33. Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither.
34. English monk and scholar (672-735).
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
38. English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899).
39. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
44. Pouch used in the shipment of mail.
46. German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947).
49. Towards the side away from the wind.
52. A decree that prohibits something.
54. Made of fir or pine.
60. Being six more than fifty.
69. Avatar of Vishnu.

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