Crossword Puzzle Number 4717 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
4. A sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid.
12. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
15. Fiddler crabs.
16. Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
17. A port in southwestern Scotland.
18. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
20. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
21. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
22. The largest city of Cameroon.
23. German psychiatrist (1883-1969).
25. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
27. A large constellation on the equator near Pisces and Aquarius.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
40. Your general store of remembered information.
43. Having two axes.
44. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
45. Coextensive with the family Taxaceae.
47. A decree that prohibits something.
48. (informal) Exceptionally good.
50. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
52. (Babylonian) Consort of Anu.
54. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
56. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
62. A member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language.
66. Seed again or anew.
67. A final climactic stage.
68. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
71. A master's degree in business.
72. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
73. Appear again.
75. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
76. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. In an urbane manner.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
4. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
5. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
6. A white trivalent metallic element.
7. Tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers.
8. The capital and largest city of Japan.
9. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain.
10. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
11. Squash bugs.
12. A person to whom money is paid.
13. The eighth month of the civil year.
14. Weapons considered collectively.
19. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
24. Any polemoniaceous plant of the genus Phlox.
26. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
28. A nonresident doctor or medical student.
29. Male cat.
31. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
32. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. In some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae.
36. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
37. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
42. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
46. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
49. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
51. By bad luck.
53. The capital of Lesotho.
55. Bright and pleasant.
57. A cry or shout of approval.
58. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
59. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
64. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
65. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
69. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
70. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
74. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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