Crossword Puzzle Number 3975 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Lacking a label or tag.
12. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
15. An affirmative.
16. Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907).
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
19. Sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye).
20. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
22. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
24. A closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure.
26. A whimsical idea.
27. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
33. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
36. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
37. United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975).
39. Engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring).
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
51. Impressive in appearance.
53. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
55. A liquid solution that results from elution.
56. An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages.
59. Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property.
60. A loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion.
62. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
66. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
67. A picturesque mountainous province of western Austria.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. Made warm or hot.
72. Having two faces or fronts.
74. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
75. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
76. A cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte).
77. Inquire about.

DOWN

1. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
2. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
3. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
4. Fiddler crabs.
5. A city in northeastern France in Lorraine.
6. A system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones.
7. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
8. A stringed instrument usually having six strings.
9. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
10. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
11. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
12. A city in Veneto.
13. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
14. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
21. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
23. Give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
28. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
29. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
30. An endorsement.
31. Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States.
32. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
34. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
35. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
38. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
46. The flesh of a chicken used for food.
47. Any plant of the genus Inula.
49. State in northeastern India.
50. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period.
52. British soldier.
54. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
57. Be in accord.
58. Produce a literary work.
61. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
63. Avatar of Vishnu.
64. The time during which someone's life continues.
65. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
68. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
69. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
73. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.

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