Crossword Puzzle Number 3703 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The act of giving temporary assistance.
5. The basic monetary unit of Portugal.
11. In bed.
15. A genus of European owls.
16. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
17. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
18. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
20. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
21. A quantity that is added.
22. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
24. English essayist (1775-1834).
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
28. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
29. A feeling of intense anger.
31. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. A river in Germany.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A country on the island of Jamaica.
46. City in central Iran.
48. An associate degree in nursing.
49. Material used to daub walls.
50. French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842).
51. A state in north central United States.
52. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
54. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
56. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
61. Being two more than eighty.
63. A shoe with a wedge heel.
65. Type genus of the Amiidae.
66. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
69. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
70. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
73. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
74. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
75. The father of your father or mother.
76. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. A mistake resulting from inattention.
2. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
3. Marked by firm determination or resolution.
4. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
7. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
8. Fiddler crabs.
9. A mechanical device used for dicing food.
10. A city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.
11. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
12. The cry made by sheep.
13. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
19. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals.
23. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
25. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
30. A fraudulent business scheme.
32. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
33. A particular environment or walk of life.
34. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
36. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
37. A starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy.
38. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
39. A genus of Ploceidae.
41. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
42. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
44. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
45. A variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation.
47. Husk of a pea.
53. United States economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption (1857-1929).
55. Voluntarily absent from home or country.
57. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
58. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
62. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
64. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
67. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
68. Either extremity of something that has length.
71. 1/1000 gram.
72. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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