Crossword Puzzle Number 911 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Having made preparations.
5. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
11. The handle of a weapon or tool.
15. God of fire.
16. United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947).
17. A Spanish river.
18. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
19. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
20. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
21. Stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion).
23. A basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it.
26. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
28. Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual.
29. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
32. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
36. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
38. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
41. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
42. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
44. A bachelor's degree in music.
47. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
49. A deliberately false or improbable account.
50. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
51. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
53. The habitation of wild animals.
54. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
55. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
57. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
58. A port city in southwestern Iran.
62. A vicious angry growl.
64. Any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as.
69. Engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring).
71. Where the air is unconfined.
73. How long something has existed.
74. A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators.
77. Elegant and stylish.
78. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
79. Mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker.
80. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.

DOWN

1. A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. To the degree or extent.
4. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
5. Causing a dull and steady pain.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
8. The largest of the four main islands of Japan.
9. An associate degree in nursing.
10. Relating to or located at or near the zenith.
11. German dramatist (1813-1863).
12. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
13. Able to act at will.
14. A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere.
22. Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614).
24. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
25. (of champagne) Extremely dry.
27. Pay out.
30. Of or relating to the palm of the hand.
31. Avatar of Vishnu.
33. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
34. A genus of Scolopacidae.
35. Stern foremost or backward.
37. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
43. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
45. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
46. Free from fear or doubt.
48. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
52. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
56. Great coolness and composure under strain.
59. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
60. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
61. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
63. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
65. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
66. A district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts.
67. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
68. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
70. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
72. The month following September and preceding November.
75. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
76. Being nine more than forty.

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