Crossword Puzzle Number 957 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
4. A kind of fluent easy superficiality.
12. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
15. A master's degree in education.
16. An open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat.
17. Used of physical heat.
18. An island republic on the island of Iceland.
20. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
22. A metal urn with a spigot at the base.
23. Obvious and dull.
24. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
25. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
26. A quantity of no importance.
27. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
29. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
30. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
41. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River.
45. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
46. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
50. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
51. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
55. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
58. A state in midwestern United States.
59. A song that was formerly popular.
60. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
64. City in central Iran.
68. The 2nd longest European river.
70. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
71. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
74. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
75. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
76. (Greek mythology) The wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity.
78. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
79. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
80. Worn to shreds.
81. Towards the side away from the wind.

DOWN

1. Not functioning properly.
2. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
3. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
4. Made of packed earth or gravel.
5. Of or relating to or associated with the moon.
6. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
9. A crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint).
10. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
11. A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost.
12. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
13. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
14. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
19. The Judeo-Christian God.
21. A married male American Indian.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
32. French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917).
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
36. Instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement.
38. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
39. A fraudulent business scheme.
40. Any competition.
42. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
43. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
49. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
52. Adapt anew.
53. A boy or man.
54. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
56. (linguistics) Of speech sounds.
57. A dark purplish red.
61. Of or relating to walls.
62. Dwell (archaic).
63. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
65. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
66. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
67. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
69. In bed.
72. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
73. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
77. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

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