Crossword Puzzle Number 3540 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. 32nd President of the United States.
4. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
12. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
15. Being one more than two.
16. French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873).
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
19. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
20. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia.
22. An unceremonious and disorganized struggle.
24. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
25. (botany) Of some seeds.
26. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
28. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
31. A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.
34. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
38. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
39. Formerly a gold coin of various European countries.
42. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. The sign language used in the United States.
45. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
47. 1/10 gram.
51. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
53. Of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream.
55. A genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae.
57. Represent in bodily form.
58. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
60. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
61. A city in northwestern Mexico near the California border.
64. Not established by conditioning or learning.
68. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
69. A port and fashionable resort city on southern Mexico's Pacific coast.
72. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
73. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
75. Family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses and the hexagonal cells of the upper leaf surface.
76. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
77. Late time of life.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. A rapid escape (as by criminals).

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1. A shoe for swimming.
2. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
3. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
4. A lizard of the family Agamidae.
5. Money that is risked for possible monetary gain.
6. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
7. Having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other.
8. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
9. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
12. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
21. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
23. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
27. The capital of Western Samoa.
29. Small jar.
30. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
32. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
33. European scaleless blenny.
35. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
36. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
37. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
40. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding.
41. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
46. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
48. Common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America.
49. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
50. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
52. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
56. An island in the southern Mariana Islands that is the administrative center of the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
59. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
62. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
63. The habitation of wild animals.
65. Absent without permission.
66. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
70. Fiddler crabs.
71. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
74. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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