Crossword Puzzle Number 2636 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
4. Having life or vigor or spirit.
12. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
15. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
16. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
17. Of inferior or mixed breed.
18. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
20. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
21. A rapid bustling commotion.
22. Short and fat.
24. Enthusiastic approval.
26. Half the width of an em.
28. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
29. An associate degree in nursing.
31. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
33. A landlocked Republic in central South America.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. Money in the form of bills or coins.
41. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. A card game for 2 players.
46. A deep bow.
48. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
50. The habitation of wild animals.
51. The capital and largest city of Japan.
52. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
53. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
54. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
59. Cause to vibrate in a definite pattern.
62. Expel, as of gases and odors.
66. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
67. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
70. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
71. At full speed.
73. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
74. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
76. English essayist (1775-1834).
77. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
78. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
79. Any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel.

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1. (trademark) An antacid.
2. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
3. Give qualities or abilities to.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. A period of time spent sleeping.
6. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
7. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
8. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
9. Webbing clothes moths.
10. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. Direct in spatial dimensions.
12. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
13. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
14. (combining form) Indicating the first or earliest or original.
19. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.
23. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. Of or like a cecum.
27. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
30. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
32. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
34. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
35. Included seven times in every 19 years.
38. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
39. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
40. A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans.
43. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
44. The cry made by sheep.
47. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
49. Of or relating to or in the manner of the playwright Henrik Ibsen.
55. Something that remunerates.
56. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
57. Injured by bites or stings.
58. Cut or impressed into a surface.
60. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
61. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
63. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
64. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
65. Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts.
68. Same in identity.
69. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
72. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
75. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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