Crossword Puzzle Number 4552 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
4. A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder.
12. A castrated tomcat.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
16. A learner who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study.
17. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
18. A river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Neuse at Namur.
20. With eyes full of tears.
21. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
22. Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables.
23. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
25. Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.
28. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
30. A particular branch of scientific knowledge.
33. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
34. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
37. A town in central Belgium.
41. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
44. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. Type genus of the Apidae.
47. The arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair).
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. Lower in esteem.
52. The wood of an African obeche tree.
54. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
56. United States writer (born in 1933).
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. Important for human and animal food.
63. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
67. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
68. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
69. A member of the Dravidian people living in southern India.
73. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
74. Someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty.
76. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
77. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
78. A native or inhabitant of the Ukraine.
79. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.

DOWN

1. A city in Tuscany.
2. By bad luck.
3. Ancient city southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius.
4. A genus of Percidae.
5. Used of a single unit or thing.
6. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
7. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
8. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.
9. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
10. A genus of birds of the family Alcedinidae.
11. Serving as an essential component.
12. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
13. An iconic mental representation.
14. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
19. Having two feet.
24. A person of French descent.
26. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
27. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
32. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
35. True firs.
36. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
38. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
40. Prong on a fork or pitchfork.
42. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
43. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
46. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
48. The quantity contained in a keg.
51. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
53. The cry made by sheep.
55. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
57. A segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene.
60. A crystal of snow.
61. Located inward.
62. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
64. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
65. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
66. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
70. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
71. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
72. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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