Crossword Puzzle Number 4232 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment.
12. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
15. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
16. Classification according to general type.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. Away from the mouth or oral region.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
22. By bad luck.
24. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
25. A port city in northwestern Germany.
27. Marked by rude or peremptory shortness.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
34. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
38. Of or relating to or associated with the uvula.
39. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
41. Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized.
43. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
44. A strong emotion.
48. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
49. A genus of Ploceidae.
51. A member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia.
53. Before noon.
55. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. Surrendered as a penalty.
63. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
67. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
68. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
71. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
72. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
73. Red breed of domestic rabbits.
75. The first month of the year.
76. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
77. A great raja.
78. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
5. Art that is produced with the help of computer hardware and software.
6. Port city in northwest Portugal.
7. Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment.
8. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
9. The Judeo-Christian God.
10. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
11. A bluish shade of green.
12. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
13. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
21. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
23. An ordered reference standard.
26. In addition.
28. (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
29. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
32. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
33. In a softened tone.
35. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
36. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
37. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
40. The closing section of a musical composition.
42. The month following October and preceding December.
45. A monument built to honor soldiers who died in a war.
46. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
47. Jordan's port.
50. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
52. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
54. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
56. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
58. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
59. A domain in which something is dominant.
60. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
62. Rounded like an egg.
64. A Hindu prince or king in India.
65. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
66. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
69. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
70. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
74. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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