Crossword Puzzle Number 1731 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
11. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
15. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
16. In the shape of a coil.
17. Being precisely fitting and right.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
19. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
20. Engage or hire for work.
21. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
23. A bachelor's degree in science.
27. Of or relating to or involving an area.
28. Not widely known.
32. God of love and erotic desire.
34. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
35. Type genus of the Gelechiidae.
41. Type genus of the Majidae.
43. Gather, as of as crops.
44. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
45. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
46. Type genus of the Anatidae.
47. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
49. Patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600).
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Give an education to.
54. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
60. An ardent male lover.
61. A fraudulent business scheme.
63. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
65. A Hindu prince or king in India.
69. An associate degree in applied science.
73. A boy or man.
74. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
75. The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal.
76. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
77. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A woman hunter.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
3. Explorer and United States naval officer.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
6. The capital of Western Samoa.
7. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
8. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
9. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
12. Make or become free of frost or ice.
13. Type genus of the Percidae.
14. An advantageous purchase.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
24. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
29. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
30. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
31. On or toward the lee.
33. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
36. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
37. An accountant certified by the state.
38. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
39. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
40. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
42. Wild ginger.
48. Deliver an oration in grandiloquent style.
50. A theatrical performer.
53. Any of several games played with small rectangular blocks.
55. A radioactive transuranic element.
56. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
57. The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving).
59. The sacred city of Lamaism.
62. 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.
64. Disabled in the feet or legs.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
67. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
68. The sixth month of the civil year.
70. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
71. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
72. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.

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