Crossword Puzzle Number 2186 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. One species.
11. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. The official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body.
20. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
21. Singing jazz.
23. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
24. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
29. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
30. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
33. A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table.
35. Constituting a copy or imitation of something.
37. A state in New England.
41. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
45. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
46. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
51. A ballroom dance of Latin-American origin.
52. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
53. Being one more than fifty.
54. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
56. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
60. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
63. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
67. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
69. Of or relating to the hyoid bone n.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
73. (euphemistic) "he is deceased".
75. A master's degree in fine arts.
76. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
77. Having no sole.
78. A unit of pressure.

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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 hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
7. United States chemist (born in Norway) noted for his work in thermodynamics (1903-1976).
8. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
9. The month following February and preceding April.
10. (of eggs) No longer edible.
11. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
12. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
13. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
14. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
22. A form of Japanese poetry.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
31. Large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil.
32. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
34. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
36. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
38. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
39. Binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid.
40. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
42. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
43. Conforming to truth.
44. Island in West Indies.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
48. (botany) Of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body.
50. English monk and scholar (672-735).
55. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
57. An alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy.
58. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
59. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
61. A Russian river.
62. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
64. God of love and erotic desire.
65. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
66. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
68. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
70. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
74. Being ten more than one hundred forty.

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