Crossword Puzzle Number 4563 (Medium Grid)

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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
5. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).
11. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
15. A sudden numbing dread.
16. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
17. A sudden short attack.
18. (informal) Valuable goods.
19. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
21. Lacking in security or safety.
23. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
24. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
26. A boy or man.
27. A New England state.
29. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
31. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. The habitation of wild animals.
36. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
40. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
43. The month following July and preceding September.
44. A member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California.
47. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
48. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
50. Imperial moths.
53. A genus of Pyralidae.
55. Rounded like an egg.
58. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
59. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
63. Break up or separate.
67. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
68. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
71. Type genus of the Gliridae.
72. Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
74. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
75. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
76. The segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British).
77. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).

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1. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
2. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
3. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
4. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
5. (linguistics) Conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
8. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
9. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
12. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
13. The face of a timepiece.
14. Not in action or at work.
20. (of a male animal) Having the testicles removed.
22. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
25. A pass between mountain peaks.
28. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
30. Pertaining to animals or animal life or action.
32. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
33. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
35. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
39. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
41. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
42. Type genus of the Nepidae.
45. Closed off.
46. Having low density.
49. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. A city of central China.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. Evoking lifelike images within the mind.
57. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
60. Music performed for dancing the polka.
61. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
62. Device for resetting instruments or controls v 1.
64. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
65. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
66. In the Roman calendar.
69. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
70. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
73. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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