Crossword Puzzle Number 2625 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. East Asian perennial herbs.
12. An enclosed space.
15. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
16. Of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
20. Present reasons and arguments.
21. A woman religious.
22. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
23. A fortified military post where troops are stationed.
25. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
27. Australian moundbird.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. True mosses.
43. (Norse mythology) A huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and heaven and hell together.
47. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
48. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
52. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981).
55. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
56. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as Prime Minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt (1913-1992).
58. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
61. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
63. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
66. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
69. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
70. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
71. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
75. A unit of pressure.
76. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
77. A master's degree in business.

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1. (of something seen or heard) Clearly defined.
2. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
3. A support or foundation.
4. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
7. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
8. Register formally.
9. A long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume.
10. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
14. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
19. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
24. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
31. A person who gains weight.
33. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
34. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
35. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
36. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
37. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
38. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
39. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
41. 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.
44. Furnished or strengthened with ribs.
45. (zoology) Of or resembling a goose.
46. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
49. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
50. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
51. A genus of Ploceidae.
53. Being one more than one hundred.
54. (of stone especially) Not given a finished form by or as if by hewing.
57. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
59. Not reflecting light.
60. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
62. A Loloish language.
64. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
67. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
68. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
72. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
73. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
74. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.

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