Crossword Puzzle Number 5325 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
4. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
11. A quantity of no importance.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. The dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants.
17. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
18. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
19. The craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium.
21. Glittering with gold or silver.
23. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
24. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
25. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
28. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. Combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments.
34. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
36. Avatar of Vishnu.
37. Goddess of fate.
38. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
39. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
41. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
43. In operation or operational.
46. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
47. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
50. At full speed.
51. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
52. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.
56. Of or relating to or involving an area.
59. A number to which another number (the addend) is added.
61. Be about.
65. Submerged freshwater perennials.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
68. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
69. The animal order including amoebas.
71. Water frozen in the solid state.
72. (British) Your grandmother.
73. Made ready for service.
74. The sign language used in the United States.

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1. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
2. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
3. The father of your father or mother.
4. A French abbot.
5. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
6. American novelist (1909-1955).
7. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
8. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
9. The Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people.
10. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
11. Large Indian antelope.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. A primeval personification of air and breath.
20. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
22. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
26. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
27. United States film actor (born in 1925).
29. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
31. The 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites.
32. Lacking even the rudiments of courage.
33. Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964).
35. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
40. Lacking in light.
42. Used of old persons or old trees.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. Pertaining to biology or to life and living things.
48. A member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen v 1.
49. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
53. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
54. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
55. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
57. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
58. A vowel-like sound that serves as a consonant.
60. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
62. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
63. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
64. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
66. Rate of revolution of a motor.
70. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.

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