Crossword Puzzle Number 2601 (Medium Grid)

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1. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
5. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
12. Inquire about.
15. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
16. Rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
19. A bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
22. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
26. An instance or single occasion for some event.
30. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
33. A rapid bustling commotion.
37. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
39. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
40. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
43. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
46. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
48. Informal terms for a mother.
49. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
50. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. Any expected deliverer.
56. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
59. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
61. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
63. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
67. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
70. Slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters.
71. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
72. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
74. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
75. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
76. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
77. Not in action or at work.

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1. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
2. On or toward the lee.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. A salt of any halogen acid.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
7. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
8. Lacking a bib.
9. Used of a single unit or thing.
10. An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border.
11. A town in central Belgium.
12. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
13. Singing jazz.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
23. Favoring one person or side over another.
24. 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.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
28. Tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage.
29. A periodic paperback publication.
31. A three-sided polygon.
32. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
34. Basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle.
35. Any loose flowing garment.
36. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
38. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
41. Type genus of the Anatidae.
42. The brightest star in Scorpius.
44. German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859).
45. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
47. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
53. The expensive white fur of the ermine.
54. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
55. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
57. Jordan's port.
60. Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd.
62. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
64. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
65. Using speech rather than writing.
66. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
73. An associate degree in nursing.

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