Crossword Puzzle Number 3449 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. Weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields.
12. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. Fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. The quantity contained in a carton.
20. A blind god.
21. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
22. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
24. A man who is a stupid fool.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
28. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
34. The cry made by sheep.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
39. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
41. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
42. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
44. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
46. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
47. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
54. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
56. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
57. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
58. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
60. The hulled and crushed grain of various cereals.
67. The basic unit of money in Indonesia.
69. A negative.
70. Advanced in years.
71. Any plant of the genus Episcia.
73. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
74. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
75. Of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings.
76. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.

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1. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
2. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
3. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
4. An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food.
5. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
8. A Nilotic language.
9. United States race driver who was the first to drive faster than a mile a minute (1878-1946).
10. A preparation used in cleaning something.
11. The eighth month of the Hindu calendar.
12. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
13. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
23. A state in midwestern United States.
25. English writer on games (1672-1769).
29. A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
31. Very light colored.
32. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
33. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
36. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
38. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. The state capital of South Australia.
45. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
48. A resort city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea.
50. A lack of vitality.
51. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
53. Having gaps or spaces.
55. European shad.
59. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
61. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
62. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
63. At a previous time.
64. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
65. Characteristic of false pride.
66. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
68. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
72. An informal term for a father.

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