Crossword Puzzle Number 1683 (Medium Grid)

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1. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
4. Illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds.
11. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
17. The capital of Western Samoa.
18. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
19. Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell.
20. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
21. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
23. The yield from plants in a single growing season.
25. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
26. In an unnatural eery manner.
27. Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.
31. Canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991).
32. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
36. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
39. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
40. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
44. Water frozen in the solid state.
47. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
52. Informal abbreviation of `gentleman'.
53. City in central Iran.
56. (architecture) Not arcuate.
58. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
59. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
60. A firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater.
63. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
67. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
73. The range within which a voice can be heard.
75. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
76. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
77. Any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads.
78. A young woman making her debut into society.

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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
3. Telephone line (Wide Area Telephone Service).
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
5. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
6. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
7. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
8. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
9. English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471).
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
22. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
24. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
28. Noisy quarrel.
29. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
30. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
33. South American cavy.
34. Being new in a time not long past.
35. A river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. The month following January and preceding March.
41. An ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate.
42. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
43. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
45. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
46. Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct.
48. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
49. A genus of Paridae.
51. A New England state.
54. (archaic) A burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle).
55. (Greek mythology) Greek goddess of the night.
57. Founder of Buddhism.
61. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
62. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
64. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
65. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
69. The sixth day of the week.
70. (informal) Of the highest quality.
74. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.

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