Crossword Puzzle Number 4892 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Paper that has been made translucent and waterproof by soaking in oil.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. Give equal rights to.
17. A column of light (as from a beacon).
18. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
20. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
21. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
22. An Australian boomerang.
23. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
24. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
26. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
27. A fraudulent business scheme.
29. South African term for `boss'.
30. Enthusiastic approval.
34. Wearing footgear.
36. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. Do something to an excessive degree.
44. Squash bugs.
48. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
49. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
52. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
54. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
55. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan.
56. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
57. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
59. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
62. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way.
65. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
69. The products of human creativity.
72. (informal) Roused to anger.
73. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
74. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
77. A great raja.
78. The month following February and preceding April.

DOWN

1. An enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial.
2. Causing a dull and steady pain.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. First in time.
5. Being one more than two.
6. 16 ounces.
7. (Greek mythology) Immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa.
8. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
9. The day on which you receive pay for your work.
10. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. Have confidence or faith in.
12. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
13. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
14. Type genus of Cycadaceae.
19. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
25. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
28. Essential equal to suborder Myomorpha with the Dipodidae excluded.
31. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
32. Having or resembling a lobe or lobes.
33. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
37. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
38. Person who does no work.
39. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.
41. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
42. A small shelter for domestic animals (as sheep or pigeons).
45. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
46. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
47. Testacean rhizopods.
50. (Judaism) A candelabrum with seven branches used in ceremonies to symbolize the seven days of creation.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
58. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
60. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
61. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
63. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
64. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
66. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. The sixth month of the civil year.
70. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
71. A pilgrimage to Mecca.

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