Crossword Puzzle Number 4587 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. Provide with a terrace, as of a house.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
16. Adhesions between the iris and the lens or cornea resulting from trauma or eye surgery of as a complication of glaucoma or cataract.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
20. (prefix) Across or crossing or on the opposite side.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. Large scissors with strong blades.
23. Enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass.
25. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
28. City in central Iran.
32. An industrial region in the Ukraine.
37. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.
38. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
40. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
41. Set afire.
44. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
45. Singing jazz.
47. Call upon in supplication.
48. Sea milkwort.
53. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
55. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
60. (of drugs) Through the mouth rather than through injection.
65. The sacred city of Lamaism.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
70. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
74. (Irish) The sea personified.
75. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
76. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
77. The compass point midway between east and southeast.

DOWN

1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. Mentally healthy.
4. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
5. A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes.
6. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
7. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
8. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
9. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
10. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
11. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
19. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
24. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
26. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
27. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
29. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
30. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
31. The hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified.
33. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
34. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
35. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
36. A city of central China.
39. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
42. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
43. A deep bow.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
52. The chance to speak.
54. A master's degree in fine arts.
56. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
57. Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
58. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
59. Very large red gum tree.
61. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
62. An account describing incidents or events.
63. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
66. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
67. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
71. An informal term for a father.
72. Being nine more than ninety.
73. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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