Crossword Puzzle Number 2066 (Medium Grid)

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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. Political propaganda (especially Communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema.
12. A federally chartered savings bank.
15. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
16. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
17. (informal) Of the highest quality.
18. Fiddler crabs.
19. Someone who speaks in a childish way.
20. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
21. French architect who introduced the mansard roof (1598-1666).
23. (of exocrine glands) Producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell.
25. Buffalo grass.
27. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
28. Disabled in the feet or legs.
29. A farewell remark.
33. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
35. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).
36. God of death.
38. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
39. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
41. Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct.
42. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
45. Largest known toad species.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of Croatia or its people or language.
51. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
52. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
53. Noisy talk.
55. United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935).
57. Type genus of the Vespidae.
60. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
62. The act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information.
64. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
72. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
73. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
74. Nearly cosmopolitan family.
75. Any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family.
76. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
77. A festival featuring African-American culture.
78. A former copper coin of Pakistan.

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1. Exactly vertical.
2. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
3. As of the flow of a liquid flowing, such as blood from a wound.
4. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
5. Someone who kills by strangling.
6. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
7. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
8. Having only superficial plausibility.
9. Cause annoyance in.
10. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
11. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
12. A villainous Jew in Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist".
13. The act of scanning.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
22. Building material used as siding or roofing.
24. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
26. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
30. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
31. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
32. A deep bow.
34. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
37. An ancient city in southeastern Greece.
40. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
43. For venison.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. American novelist (1909-1955).
48. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
49. A genus of Paridae.
50. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
54. Unknown god.
56. A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth.
58. Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment.
59. Small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit.
61. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
63. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
65. A quantity that is added.
66. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
67. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
70. A loud harsh or strident noise.
71. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.

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