Crossword Puzzle Number 2280 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A master's degree in business.
4. The act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
16. A bin for holding coal.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. An athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball).
20. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. A variable quantity that is random.
23. Chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth.
25. The capital and largest city of Greece.
27. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
28. Noisy quarrel.
32. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
35. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
38. The back side of the neck.
39. Transient cessation of respiration.
42. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
43. A person forced to flee from home or country.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A rapid bustling commotion.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. Further or added.
52. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
55. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
57. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
60. A colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins.
62. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
63. The act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection).
67. Involving two dimensions.
70. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
71. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
72. Free somebody (from an erroneous belief).
74. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
75. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
76. Compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming.
77. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).

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1. Herbs and subshrubs.
2. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1.
3. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
4. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
5. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
6. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
7. Any high mountain.
8. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
9. An electrically charged particle.
10. Tropical Atlantic fish.
11. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
12. South African term for `boss'.
13. By bad luck.
14. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
19. Capital of the state of South Dakota.
24. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
26. An unforeseen obstacle.
29. A nation in northern North America.
30. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
31. A Spanish title of respect for a married woman.
33. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
34. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
36. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
37. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
45. (botany) Having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow.
48. A bowl-shaped vessel.
50. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
51. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
53. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
54. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
56. Produced by inbreeding.
58. Be in contradiction with.
59. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
61. The act of beginning something new.
64. A city in northern India.
65. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
66. English essayist (1775-1834).
68. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
69. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
73. A state in north central United States.

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