Crossword Puzzle Number 2860 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
4. Formed like a bacillus.
12. The younger of two major political parties in the United States.
15. Used of a single unit or thing.
16. The condition of having no arms.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A yellow quartz.
20. Of or relating to the uvea of the eye.
22. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
23. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep.
25. (informal) Roused to anger.
27. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
29. Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position.
33. Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
37. The time period between dawn and noon.
38. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
40. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1.
42. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
44. Delivered from danger.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
49. The products of human creativity.
50. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
53. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
56. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
58. English writer (1672-1729).
61. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
62. Testacean rhizopods.
64. A German city near Leipzig.
68. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
69. Large brightly crested bird of Africa.
72. God of love and erotic desire.
73. One thousandth of a second.
74. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
75. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
76. Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality.
77. An adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
78. A Loloish language.

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1. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
2. A rounded projection or protuberance.
3. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor.
4. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. The leg from the knee to foot.
7. A sizeable hole (usually in the ground).
8. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
9. The sacred city of Lamaism.
10. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
11. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
19. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
21. Of or relating to the Olympic Games.
24. A member of the Slavic people living in Croatia.
26. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
28. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
30. A draft horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle.
31. Obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically.
32. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
34. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures.
36. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
39. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
41. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
45. A mixture of substances having a minimum melting point.
47. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
51. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
52. Denuded of leaves.
54. Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.
55. A viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility).
57. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
59. In or of a state of physical or nervous tension.
60. Formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water.
63. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
65. A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance).
66. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
67. Type genus of the Ranidae.
70. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
71. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.

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