Crossword Puzzle Number 4119 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A disease of poultry.
4. An antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches.
12. Gone by.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Not liable to error.
17. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
18. A resident of Kansas.
20. A telegram sent abroad.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. Similar or related in quality or character.
23. A genus of Indriidae.
25. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
27. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A deliberately false or improbable account.
36. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
40. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
41. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
43. (genetics) Designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced.
44. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
48. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
49. Beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled.
52. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
53. Of or relating to the spine or spinal cord.
54. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
58. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
60. Best of its kind on record.
64. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
68. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
69. French mime famous for his sad-faced clown (born in 1923).
72. A Hindu prince or king in India.
73. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
74. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
75. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
76. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
77. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
78. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
2. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
3. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
4. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
5. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
6. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
7. A covered passageway.
8. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
9. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
10. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
11. The cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
14. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
19. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
24. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
26. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
28. An informal term for a father.
32. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
33. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
34. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
35. A small island.
37. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
38. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
39. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
42. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
45. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
46. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
47. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
50. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
56. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
57. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
59. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
61. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
62. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
63. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
65. Not widely known.
66. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
67. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
70. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
71. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.

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