Crossword Puzzle Number 2995 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Slightly wet.
5. Take hold of.
12. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
15. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
16. Not having a lining or liner.
17. The fatty flesh of eel.
18. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
20. Put out or expel from a place.
21. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. The ending of a series or sequence.
26. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
28. Monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression.
31. A state in northwestern North America.
32. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
33. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
36. The sacred city of Lamaism.
40. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
43. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
47. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
48. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
50. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
52. The twelfth month of the civil year.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
55. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
58. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
61. A genus of Pyralidae.
64. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
66. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
70. (informal) Roused to anger.
71. Any disease-producing agent especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism.
73. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
74. Used of a single unit or thing.
75. Not wooded.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. An informal term for a father.
2. Type genus of the Amiidae.
3. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
4. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
5. Strike, usually with the fist.
6. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
7. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
8. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
9. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
10. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
11. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
12. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
13. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
14. Free from dirt or impurities.
19. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
24. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
29. Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars.
30. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
37. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
38. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
39. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
41. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
42. The largest city of Cameroon.
44. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
46. Tropical American thorny shrub or small tree.
49. Any thick messy substance.
51. A mixer incorporating a coil of wires.
53. Leave voluntarily.
56. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
59. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
60. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
62. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
63. A feeling of intense anger.
65. God of love and erotic desire.
67. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
68. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
69. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
72. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.

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