Crossword Puzzle Number 2333 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. An ancient branch of the Semitic languages.
12. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. A nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm).
17. An erratic deflection from an intended course.
18. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
20. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A large number or amount.
27. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
29. A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.
30. Foul with waste matter.
32. A farm building for housing poultry.
34. Go on board.
35. Noisy talk.
36. The sacred city of Lamaism.
39. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
40. A state in north central United States.
43. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
54. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
56. A university in Connecticut.
57. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
59. Wear away.
61. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
63. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
64. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
68. Segmented worms.
71. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
72. The basic unit of money in Romania.
73. Extinct order of jawless vertebrates.
76. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
77. The foot of a human being.
78. A great raja.
79. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

DOWN

1. An informal term for a father.
2. In bed.
3. The cry made by sheep.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. People descended from a common ancestor.
6. A tight cluster of people or things.
7. A mixture of methyl and ethyl chloride.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
9. Being nine more than ninety.
10. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
11. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
12. (Greek mythology) One of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead.
13. Given or having a specified name.
14. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
19. Noisy quarrel.
21. Aimlessly drifting.
24. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
25. A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
26. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
28. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
31. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
33. An informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge.
37. A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound.
38. The address where a person lives.
41. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
42. 1 species.
45. Mostly deciduous monoecious trees or shrubs.
47. The animal order including amoebas.
48. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
49. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
51. Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
55. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
58. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
62. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
65. Medium-sized tubular pasta in short pieces.
66. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
69. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
70. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
74. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
75. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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