Crossword Puzzle Number 4974 (Medium Grid)

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1. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
5. Narrow and long and pointed.
12. Black tropical American cuckoo.
15. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
16. A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented.
17. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
18. A special way of doing something.
19. Disabled in the feet or legs.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. Breathing device consisting of a bent tube fitting into a swimmer's mouth and extending above the surface.
23. A violet photopigment in the retinal cones of the eyes of most vertebrates.
25. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
26. Blood-sucking African fly.
27. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
30. Suggestive of the supernatural.
33. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.
36. A New England state.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
39. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
43. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
45. English ballet dancer (born in 1910).
48. An odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines.
50. The content of cognition.
51. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
52. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
53. A branch of the Tai languages.
54. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
58. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
59. Not in good physical or mental health.
61. Publicly announced.
69. A genus of Indriidae.
70. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
72. Wool of the alpaca.
73. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
78. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
79. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
80. Remove with or as if with a ladle.

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1. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
2. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
3. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
4. Form a group or group together.
5. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
6. A soft whitish calcite.
7. The fatty flesh of eel.
8. Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles.
9. Serving no useful purpose.
10. Someone who transmits a message.
11. Relating to or produced by ergot.
12. Lower in esteem.
13. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
14. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
22. A loose robe.
24. A genus of Bothidae.
28. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
29. South American cavy.
31. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
32. A kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles.
34. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits.
41. The month following March and preceding May.
42. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
44. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
46. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
47. A choice or delicious dish.
49. After noon.
55. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
56. Some point in the air.
57. (logic or grammar) Of or relating to scope.
60. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
62. Divisible by two.
63. Avatar of Vishnu.
64. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Common Indian weaverbird.
67. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
68. Something causes misery or death.
71. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
75. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
76. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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