Crossword Puzzle Number 1571 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A Loloish language.
5. Telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle.
12. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
15. A genus of European owls.
16. Put into a proper or systematic order.
17. A resource.
18. A singer of folk songs.
19. Render capable or able for some task.
21. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
22. A light touch or stroke.
24. With playful slyness or roguishness.
28. A primeval personification of air and breath.
32. Informing by words.
36. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
37. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
38. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
40. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
41. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
43. A state in midwestern United States.
45. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
48. 1 species.
49. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
52. A jaunty rhythm in music.
53. A form of Japanese poetry.
56. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
64. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
65. (Brit) One who sells goods on the installment plan.
68. A negative.
69. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
70. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
71. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
72. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
73. A region of southwestern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea including the islands of Capri and Ischia.
74. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.

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1. A genus of Lamnidae.
2. Flexible twig of a willow tree.
3. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
4. Used especially of lower plants.
5. Having rugged physical strength.
6. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
7. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
8. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
9. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
10. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
11. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
12. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. In the Roman calendar.
20. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
23. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
25. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
26. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
27. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
29. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
30. A strikingly beautiful woman.
31. In accord with the most fashionable ideas or style.
33. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
34. Earlier in time.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
42. Of or relating to or containing basalt.
44. A boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. Elected Vice President in Roosevelt's 4th term.
54. City in Sudan.
55. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
57. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
58. Toward the mouth or oral region.
59. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
60. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
61. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
62. Characteristic of false pride.
63. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
66. An advanced law degree.
67. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.

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