Crossword Puzzle Number 2404 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Informal terms for money.
5. Absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect).
12. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
15. Armor plate that protects the chest.
16. A collection of things wrapped or boxed together.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Serving as or forming a base.
19. (Babylonian) Consort of Anu.
20. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
22. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
24. Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
33. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
37. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
42. A fragment of brick used as a weapon.
45. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
46. A long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes.
47. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
50. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
51. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
53. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
54. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. A blind god.
61. Any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed on plants and plant products.
65. Small genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs.
68. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
70. New World lizards.
71. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
72. (Christianity) Saved from the bondage of sin.
75. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
76. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
77. Large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds.
78. Used of a single unit or thing.

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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
4. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
5. With rapid movements.
6. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
7. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
8. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
9. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
10. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
11. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
12. An island northwest of Wales.
13. Singing jazz.
14. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
21. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
23. Late time of life.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. A separate part of a whole.
28. Testacean rhizopods.
30. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
32. A state in northwestern North America.
34. In full operation.
35. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic.
36. Completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress.
38. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
39. A Russian river.
40. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
44. An endorsement.
48. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
49. A copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient.
52. A widow holding property received from her deceased husband.
55. Dearly loved.
56. Feel admiration for.
57. (Akkadian) A goddess.
59. Lay bare.
60. Of or relating to a hair.
63. The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
64. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
66. Being three more than fifty.
67. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
69. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
73. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
74. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.

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