Crossword Puzzle Number 2605 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. Produced by living organisms or biological processes.
12. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
15. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
16. A compound of arsenic with a more positive element.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
19. Of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country.
20. A son who has the same first name as his father.
21. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
23. A small island.
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
29. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
32. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
35. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
37. One or some or every or all without specification.
41. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
43. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
44. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
48. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
49. Vietnamese New Year.
50. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
54. The snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the Organ of Corti.
57. A genus of Caltha.
59. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
62. French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987).
64. French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878).
68. Temporary living quarters.
69. Relatively deep or strong.
72. A hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter.
73. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.

DOWN

1. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
2. A grant made by a law court.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
5. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
6. Someone who guards the entrance to a building.
7. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
8. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
9. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
10. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
11. An abdominal tumor.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
14. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
22. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
25. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
28. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
30. In a softened tone.
31. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
33. A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em.
34. Relating to or containing acetic acid.
36. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
42. Type genus of the Momotidae.
47. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
51. A short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life.
52. The basic unit of money in Albania.
53. Cause to lose courage.
55. Ground snakes.
56. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
58. A hard copal derived from an African tree.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A German man.
65. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
66. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
67. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
70. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
71. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
74. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
75. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.

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