Crossword Puzzle Number 2906 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Numbered or proceeding by tens.
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
16. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
18. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
20. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
21. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Estonia.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
27. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
31. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
35. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
38. Chop cut from a lamb.
40. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
42. In or of the month preceding the present one.
43. Away from the mouth or oral region.
45. The cry made by sheep.
49. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
50. Before noon.
51. Made of or resembling lace.
52. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
53. An associate degree in nursing.
58. Relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language n.
62. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
65. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
67. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
68. Of or relating to Fabianism.
70. Be going to.
72. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
73. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
74. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
76. Used of a single unit or thing.
77. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
78. (used especially of ideas or principles) Deeply rooted.

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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Jordan's port.
3. Informal terms for a human head.
4. Black tropical American cuckoo.
5. An uproarious party.
6. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
7. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
8. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
9. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
10. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
11. An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border.
12. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
13. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
14. An association of criminals.
19. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
22. Expressing deep personal emotion.
25. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
26. 1 species.
28. Large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
32. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
33. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
34. In a competent capable manner.
36. Not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol).
37. English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827).
39. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
41. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
44. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice.
48. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
54. An unwholesome atmosphere.
55. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
56. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
57. Dwell (archaic).
59. A city in northeastern Ohio.
60. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
61. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions.
63. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
64. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
66. Disabled in the feet or legs.
69. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
71. A boy or man.
75. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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