Crossword Puzzle Number 4940 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
11. An artificial source of visible illumination.
15. A police officer who investigates crimes.
16. The peers of a kingdom considered as a group.
17. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
20. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon.
25. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
28. Not disposed to cheat or defraud.
29. Incompletely or imperfectly shaped.
32. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
33. The back side of the neck.
34. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
36. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
40. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
44. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
46. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
47. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
49. A genus of the family Droseraceae.
51. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
52. Use up, as of resources or materials.
55. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
57. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
60. A region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones.
67. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
68. Achieved or reached.
71. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
72. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
73. Water containing salts.
74. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
77. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.

DOWN

1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
5. Adapt anew.
6. The fatty flesh of eel.
7. Aromatic Eurasian perennial.
8. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. Echo repeatedly, echo again and again.
11. Someone to who a license is granted.
12. Love intensely.
13. God of blame and mockery.
14. Buildings for carrying on industrial labor.
22. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
24. A blind god.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
30. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
31. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
35. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
37. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
38. The visible part of a television transmission.
39. Enthusiastic approval.
41. The highest level or degree attainable.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
45. The brightest star in Ursa Minor.
48. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
50. Genus of tropical trees.
53. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
54. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
56. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
58. A person of unquestioning obedience.
59. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
61. English essayist (1775-1834).
62. A fastener for a door or lid.
63. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
64. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
65. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
66. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
69. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
70. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

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