Crossword Puzzle Number 4241 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
4. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
12. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
15. A quantity of money.
16. A musical composition in several movements.
17. The capital and largest city of Japan.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots.
20. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
21. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
23. (Greek mythology) The priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse.
25. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
26. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
27. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
35. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
38. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
40. Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi.
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. Being nine more than ninety.
45. Young eel.
47. A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century.
48. The capital of Moldova.
54. Wig for men fashionable in 17th-18th centuries.
56. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
57. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
59. A surface coating for ceramics or porcelain.
61. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
63. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
67. Two items of the same kind.
71. The cry made by sheep.
72. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
73. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
74. A container.
75. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
76. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
77. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.

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1. One thousandth of a second.
2. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
3. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
4. City in central Iran.
5. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
6. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
7. Adapt anew.
8. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
9. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
10. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
11. A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant.
12. Make less visible or unclear.
13. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
14. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
22. A desert in southern Israel.
24. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
28. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A human female who does housework.
33. Found in warm waters of western Atlantic.
34. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
36. A form of address for a man.
37. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
39. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
41. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
43. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
46. French painter (1868-1940).
49. Morning glory.
50. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
51. A strong emotion.
52. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism.
53. Smallest merganser and most expert diver.
55. A former British gold coin worth 21 chillings.
58. Events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something.
60. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.
62. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
64. A French abbot.
65. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
66. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
68. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
69. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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