Crossword Puzzle Number 4280 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
12. A doctor's degree in education.
15. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
16. An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.
17. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
18. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981).
20. A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one.
22. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
24. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. A tributary of the Ohio River.
27. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
29. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
31. Small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves.
35. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
39. A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck).
40. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
41. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
44. A token that postal fees have been paid.
46. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
48. (used in combination) "the economy-size package".
49. A deep bow.
51. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
52. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
53. The sixth month of the civil year.
54. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
56. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
58. Relating to or near the ulna.
62. Preceding all others in time.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. A tumor of the bone marrow (usually malignant) composed of cells normally found in bone marrow.
73. Type genus of the Majidae.
74. Being one more than six.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
76. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
77. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
78. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
79. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.

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1. Turned or twisted toward one side.
2. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
3. Sour or bitter in taste.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
5. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
6. An elaborate song for solo voice.
7. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
8. State in northeastern India.
9. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
10. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
11. An associate degree in nursing.
12. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
13. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
21. A genus of Carangidae.
23. A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing.
26. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
28. A persistently annoying person.
30. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
32. A hard protective sheath as secreted by certain protoctists e.g..
33. Any external parasitic organism (as fleas).
34. Place a value on.
36. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
37. City in Sudan.
38. American dramatist (1928- ).
42. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
43. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
45. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A skilled worker who coins or stamps money.
55. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
57. A member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s.
59. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
60. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. A sudden short attack.
64. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
67. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
68. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
71. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
72. The month following February and preceding April.

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