Crossword Puzzle Number 2312 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
5. Genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips.
12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
15. Type genus of the Amiidae.
16. A city and port in northern Jutland.
17. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
18. Not existing.
20. Having or covered with hair.
22. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
23. Long and light rowing boat.
25. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
26. Greek mythology.
28. An unforeseen obstacle.
31. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
39. More of the same adv.
41. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
42. A flexible container with a single opening.
45. The random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid.
46. Being one more than two.
48. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
49. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
53. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
54. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
56. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
57. Without moral standards or principles.
61. Squash bugs.
66. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
67. Deeply moved.
71. Not final or absolute.
72. Call before a court to answer an indictment.
74. Black tropical American cuckoo.
75. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
76. A city in southeastern Spain.
77. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.

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1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
4. An attribute that fits a person for something.
5. A decree that prohibits something.
6. Being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
9. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
10. Be iridescent.
11. Be in accord.
12. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
13. Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
14. Chief port of Yemen.
19. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
21. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
24. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers.
29. A native or inhabitant of Nubia.
30. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).
32. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
34. Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in Eastern spiritual values (1877-1962).
35. Type genus of the Ariidae.
36. An oil port in southern Iraq.
38. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
40. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
43. Lower in esteem.
44. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
47. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
50. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
51. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
52. Chief of the Vanir.
55. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
58. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
59. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
60. All of the words in a language.
62. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
63. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
64. A city in northern India.
65. English essayist (1775-1834).
68. A periodic paperback publication.
69. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
73. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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