Crossword Puzzle Number 1755 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A decree that prohibits something.
4. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
11. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
15. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
16. Relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska.
17. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
18. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
19. United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935).
20. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
21. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
25. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
27. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
29. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
32. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
33. The contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery.
41. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
42. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. A soft silvery metallic element.
48. An attribute that fits a person for something.
50. A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription.
54. Cause to lose one's nerve.
56. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
57. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
61. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
63. The government (political and military) of the Soviet Union.
69. An informal debt instrument.
70. A loose-fitting robe of towelling.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. The sign language used in the United States.
75. Adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances.
76. Not in good physical or mental health.
77. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.

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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. A genus of Indriidae.
3. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
7. A northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia.
8. Jordan's port.
9. God of love and erotic desire.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
12. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
13. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
14. A reddish brown dye used especially on hair.
22. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. United States journalist (born in England in 1908).
31. Suggestive of the supernatural.
34. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
37. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
38. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
39. An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety.
40. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
45. Large Indian antelope.
49. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
51. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
52. Only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand.
53. The bill in a restaurant.
55. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
58. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
59. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant.
60. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
62. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
64. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
65. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
66. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
67. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
68. Containing or filled with salt.
71. Adult female chicken.
72. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.

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