Crossword Puzzle Number 4945 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash adv.
5. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
11. One thousandth of a second.
15. Located in or toward the back or rear.
16. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral).
17. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
18. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
19. With a forward motion.
21. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
23. A city in southeastern South Korea.
24. Small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward.
25. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
26. The basic unit of money in Panama.
29. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
33. Being derived from.
37. An associate degree in nursing.
38. A bachelor's degree in theology.
39. Either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin.
40. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
41. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
45. (linguistics) Of speech sounds.
47. A three-tone Chadic language.
49. An ancient Greek city famous for military prowess.
50. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
51. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. A city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port.
57. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
61. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
64. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
68. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
73. Denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java.
75. Of the blackest black.
76. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
77. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
78. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

DOWN

1. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
2. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.
3. A fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface).
4. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. A milkshake made with malt powder.
7. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
8. A city of central China.
9. In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals.
10. Informal terms for a mother.
11. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
12. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
13. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
14. (British slang) An absolute certainty.
20. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
22. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
28. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
30. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
31. Of or relating to the system for delivering mail.
32. Expel air.
34. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
35. Of inferior or mixed breed.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
43. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
46. A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote.
48. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
54. A waiter at a drive-in restaurant.
55. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
56. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
58. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
59. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
63. The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon.
65. A Hindu prince or king in India.
66. In bed.
67. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
69. The habitation of wild animals.
70. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
74. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.

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