Crossword Puzzle Number 1779 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. A city in Taiwan.
12. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943).
17. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
20. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
22. Singing jazz.
24. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
25. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
26. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
27. A state in midwestern United States.
29. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches).
40. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
41. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
43. An antibody in blood serum that attaches to invading microorganisms and other antigens to make them more susceptible to the action of phagocytes.
45. Worthy of imitation.
46. Towards the side away from the wind.
50. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
51. An associate degree in nursing.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. Avatar of Vishnu.
59. American Revolutionary patriot.
62. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
66. A lump on the body caused by a blow.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. Coins collectively.
73. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
74. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
75. French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827).
76. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.

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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A small amount (especially of a drink).
5. Squash bugs.
6. The content of cognition.
7. A person who eats human flesh.
8. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
9. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
11. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
12. A table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches.
13. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
14. A city in north-central India.
21. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
23. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable.
28. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
30. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
31. Lower in esteem.
32. The act of scanning.
33. Lacking in light.
36. A quantity of no importance.
37. A genus of Ploceidae.
38. Flesh of any of various freshwater fishes of the families Centrarchidae of North America or Cyprinidae of Europe.
39. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
42. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
44. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
49. Very dark black.
52. A kind of sedan chair used in India.
53. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
54. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
57. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
58. An area that includes seats for several people.
60. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
61. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
63. Little known Kamarupan languages.
64. A Loloish language.
65. An artificial source of visible illumination.
67. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
68. (Irish) The sea personified.
69. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
72. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.

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