Crossword Puzzle Number 2126 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
4. A French policeman.
12. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
15. A pass between mountain peaks.
16. Resembling an umbel in form.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. An officer of the law.
20. The capital of Morocco.
22. A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot.
24. A needle-like part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal.
26. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
29. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
32. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
33. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Any beetle of the genus Calosoma.
40. One thousandth of a second.
43. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
44. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
54. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
55. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
56. A wine bottle made of leather.
59. Type genus of the Caviidae.
61. One species.
64. United States politician and orator (1782-1817).
68. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
69. Great coolness and composure under strain.
72. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
73. The residue that remains when something is burned.
74. Medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head.
76. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
77. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
78. An elementary particle with negative charge.
79. A doctor's degree in education.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A disreputable vagrant.
3. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
4. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
5. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
6. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
7. A visual presentation showing how something works.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
10. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
11. Suggestive of the supernatural.
12. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
13. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
14. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
21. Placed crosswise.
23. Wood of a sumac.
25. A soft whitish calcite.
27. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
28. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
30. Seal again.
31. In bed.
34. Island in West Indies.
35. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
36. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
39. A kiln for drying hops.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. Arrange or combine in pairs.
46. Fictional character created by Charles Dickens.
49. Electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded.
50. British informal term.
51. The central area of a church.
52. Lower in esteem.
57. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
58. Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality.
60. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
62. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
63. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
65. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
66. A town in north central Oklahoma.
67. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
70. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
71. An engineering university in Cambridge.
75. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.

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