Crossword Puzzle Number 2286 (Medium Grid)

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1. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
4. Flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail.
12. A young woman making her debut into society.
15. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
16. An official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it.
17. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
18. Any of various water spirits.
20. A state in New England.
21. One of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participates in a group organization).
23. A genus of Ploceidae.
26. Having the same or similar characteristics.
28. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
29. Having gaps or spaces.
36. Having a melody (as distinguished from recitative).
38. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
39. The month following February and preceding April.
40. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
43. After noon.
44. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
47. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
48. Of or belonging to an aecium.
51. Estimation of the amount of lumber in a log.
54. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
55. Coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico.
56. Belonging to or governing a diocese n.
58. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
59. Toward the mouth or oral region.
60. A branch of the Tai languages.
67. A cgs unit of work or energy.
68. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
71. At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.
72. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
73. Of animals.
75. A growth in strength or number or importance.
76. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
77. Any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms.
78. A notable achievement.

DOWN

1. A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
4. Herbs, shrubs and trees.
5. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
6. An honorary degree in science.
7. A general conscious awareness.
8. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
9. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
10. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.
11. (music) A tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones.
12. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
13. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
14. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
19. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
22. Containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody.
24. A radioactive transuranic element.
25. A program that is broadcast again.
27. The content of cognition.
30. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
31. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
32. Make a plat of.
33. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
34. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
35. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
37. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
41. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
42. A city in central Tanzania.
45. Lessen the intensity of.
46. Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction.
49. The act of escaping physically.
50. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
52. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
53. Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art.
57. Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964).
61. Using speech rather than writing.
62. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
63. Obtained from various tropical plants.
64. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
65. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
66. Colored or impregnated with dye.
69. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
70. Less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
74. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.

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