Crossword Puzzle Number 2653 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A person's brother or sister.
4. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification).
12. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
15. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
16. Player acts out a phrase for others to guess.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
20. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
22. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.
24. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
25. A lake in northwestern Russia.
26. An earth color containing ferric oxides.
28. A ribbon used as a decoration.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
35. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
39. A soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime.
42. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
44. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
45. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
47. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
49. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
52. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
54. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
57. 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.
61. The basic unit of money in Finland.
65. Mites and ticks.
68. Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
71. A master's degree in business.
72. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
73. Composed of or covered with relatively large particles.
75. A decree that prohibits something.
76. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
77. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
3. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
4. (of exocrine glands) Producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell.
5. Protected from heat and light with shade or shadow.
6. 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.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. The mints.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. The act of detecting something.
12. A hard copal derived from an African tree.
13. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
14. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
21. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
27. Set down according to a plan.
29. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
30. Accord or comport with.
33. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
34. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
36. The act of catching an object with the hands.
37. Belonging to some prior time.
38. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
46. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
48. A river in southeastern France.
50. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
51. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
55. Any movable possession (especially articles of clothing).
56. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
58. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
59. A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate.
60. A state in the eastern United States.
62. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
67. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
69. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
70. A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
74. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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