Crossword Puzzle Number 4920 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
4. (sometimes followed by `to') Causing harm or injury.
12. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness.
17. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
18. One million periods per second.
19. A mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air.
20. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
21. A port city in western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.
23. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. Something that follows something else.
29. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
32. Genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere.
35. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
37. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
40. To a great degree.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses).
48. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
49. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
53. Informal terms for a mother.
55. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
58. The beginning or early stages.
60. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. An animal trainer who tames wild animals.
64. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
67. The sixth month of the civil year.
70. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.
71. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
72. Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people.
73. Water frozen in the solid state.
74. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
75. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
76. Someone who is morally reprehensible.

DOWN

1. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
2. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
3. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
4. With dexterity.
5. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
6. 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.
7. A primeval personification of air and breath.
8. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
9. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
10. (Greek mythology) The goddess of divine retribution and vengeance.
11. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
12. Grasses native to temperate regions.
13. Inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
14. Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words.
22. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
24. Short and fat.
26. An informal debt instrument.
28. Make famous for ever.
30. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
31. A genus of Pyralidae.
33. Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat.
34. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
36. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
38. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
39. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
41. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
45. Excessive size.
46. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
47. Any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine.
50. Of silk fabric.
51. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
52. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
54. Reduce in worth, character, etc..
56. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
57. Lower in esteem.
59. A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle.
63. Cause annoyance in.
65. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
66. Colored or impregnated with dye.
68. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
69. A resource.

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