Crossword Puzzle Number 8041 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Understood perfectly.
12. Inquire about.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. Liquidate gradually.
17. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
18. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. Grasses native to temperate regions.
20. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. A means of serving.
25. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
26. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
28. The 3rd planet from the sun.
30. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
36. Lower in esteem.
38. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
40. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
43. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
44. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
45. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
48. The products of human creativity.
49. An industrial town in north central Alabama.
52. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
54. An associate degree in nursing.
55. An honorary degree in science.
59. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
60. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
64. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
68. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
71. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
73. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
75. Negation of a word or group of words.
76. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
77. Someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place.
78. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.

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1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
5. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
6. Find the solution to (a problem or question).
7. A step in walking or running.
8. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
9. Lacking a rim or frame.
10. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
11. Classification used for 5 species of terrestrial ferns usually placed in other genera.
12. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
13. A district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts.
14. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
21. Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles.
23. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
27. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
29. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
31. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. Closed with a lace.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
35. Decisively defeated in combat.
37. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
39. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
41. English monk and scholar (672-735).
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
46. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
50. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
52. Remaining after all deductions.
53. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
57. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
67. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
74. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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