Crossword Puzzle Number 1998 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
5. Type genus of the Parulidae.
11. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
15. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
16. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
17. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
18. Using speech rather than writing.
19. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
21. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.
23. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
24. A decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody.
27. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
29. A master's degree in business.
30. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
31. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
33. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
41. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
43. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
45. United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962).
48. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
49. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
50. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
52. Mites and ticks.
55. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
57. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
60. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
61. The event of being born.
65. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
66. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
68. King of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Saint Edward the Martyr was murdered.
69. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
71. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.
73. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
74. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
75. French choreographer and ballet dancer (born in Russia) (1895-1979).
76. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

DOWN

1. Take by theft.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. A support or foundation.
4. (botany) Tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed.
5. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
6. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
7. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
8. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
9. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. A sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract).
12. A saying that widely accepted on its own merits.
13. A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore.
14. Lose blood from one's body.
20. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
22. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
25. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
26. Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936).
28. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
32. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
34. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
35. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
36. A republic in eastern Africa.
38. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
39. A motley assortment of things.
42. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
44. Not based on fact.
46. The property of having little body fat.
47. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
51. A simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines).
53. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
54. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
56. Any plant of the genus Erica.
58. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
59. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
62. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
63. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
64. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. A Mid-Atlantic state.
72. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

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