Crossword Puzzle Number 3879 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The second day of the week.
4. Large genus of evergreen lianas of tropical America.
11. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. A country person.
17. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
18. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
20. English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960).
21. Not agitated.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. Largest known toad species.
27. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
29. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
32. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
35. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
37. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A boy or man.
40. A small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged.
43. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
44. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
47. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. In a sonorous manner.
52. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
58. A fine powder produced by the anthers of seed-bearing plants.
61. Philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
62. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
63. Weapons considered collectively.
66. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
69. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
70. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
71. In the current fashion or style.
72. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
75. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
76. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
77. A region of North Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar.
78. Having leadership guidance.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Type genus of the Nepidae.
4. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
5. That is to say.
6. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
7. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. The state that precedes vomiting.
9. Have in mind as a purpose.
10. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
11. Of or relating to mucous membranes.
12. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
13. Resembling milk in color or cloudiness.
14. The highest level or degree attainable.
19. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
23. Be or do something to a greater degree.
24. Cause to be more favorably inclined.
26. Direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.
28. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
30. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
31. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
33. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
34. Wear away.
36. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
41. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
42. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
45. French painter (1868-1940).
48. No longer active or practicing.
51. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
53. (botany) Of or relating to or functioning as a cambium.
55. Accumulate on the surface.
56. Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.
57. Traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments.
59. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
60. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
64. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
65. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
67. A small island.
68. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
73. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
74. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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