Crossword Puzzle Number 1636 (Medium Grid)

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1. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
4. A town in northern Egypt.
11. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Any member of a ship's crew.
17. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
18. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
19. English monk and scholar (672-735).
20. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
21. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
22. A natural talent.
23. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
24. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
27. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
31. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
40. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
44. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
49. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic.
52. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
53. Being one more than one hundred.
57. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
61. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
64. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
66. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
67. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
69. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
71. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
72. Make editorial changes (in a text).
73. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
75. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
76. A stock exchange in New York.
77. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
78. A transuranic element.

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1. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
2. Any of various edible decapod crustaceans.
3. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
4. Showing your contempt by derision.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. The basic unit of money in China.
8. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
9. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
10. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
11. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
12. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
13. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
14. United States parapsychologist (1895-1980).
26. Being one more than fifty.
28. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A state in midwestern United States.
32. An effortful attempt to attain a goal.
33. Lower in esteem.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
37. Cry plaintively.
38. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
39. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
41. Lacking motor coordination.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.
48. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
50. A learned person (especially in the humanities).
51. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
54. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
55. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
56. Make less active or intense.
58. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
59. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
60. A hidden drawback.
62. A polite name for any woman.
63. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
65. A sudden quick movement.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
74. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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