Crossword Puzzle Number 1524 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. An artist of consummate skill.
12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
15. The sixth month of the civil year.
16. Normal relaxed breathing.
17. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
18. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
20. (with `in') Guardianship over.
21. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
22. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
23. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
25. In bed.
26. A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man.
27. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
37. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
39. A large quantity of written matter.
40. A city in southern Finland.
42. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
44. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
46. Employed in accomplishing something.
47. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778).
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of the African Republic of the Sudan or its people.
52. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
53. A column of light (as from a beacon).
57. Sweet flags.
61. A net that will enclose fish when it is pulled in.
64. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
65. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness.
68. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
69. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
70. Either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.
71. A small lump or protuberance.
72. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
73. A shifty deceptive person.
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

DOWN

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
4. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
5. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
6. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
7. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
8. An unforeseen obstacle.
9. The present or immediately coming night adv.
10. An island in Antigua and Barbuda.
11. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
12. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
13. Marked by the reception of pay.
14. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
28. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
29. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
30. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
31. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
32. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
33. A thermionic tube having two electrodes.
35. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
36. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
38. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
41. A bright spot on the parhelic circle.
43. The spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance.
45. (Irish) Ancient Irish god (probably a god of the sun).
48. An analgesic for mild pain.
50. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people.
51. (classical mythology) A hero noted for his strength.
54. Half the width of an em.
55. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
56. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
58. United States parapsychologist (1895-1980).
59. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
60. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
62. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
63. Quality of being active or spirited or vigorous.
66. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
67. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.

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