Crossword Puzzle Number 5340 (Medium Grid)

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1. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
4. The police sergeant on duty in a police station.
11. By bad luck.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Gases ejected from an engine as waste products.
17. Type genus of the Nepidae.
18. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
19. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
20. The middle of the chief navigable channel of a waterway that forms the boundary line between states.
22. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
25. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
28. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
29. United States civil rights leader (1901-1981).
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal.
38. An informal term for a father.
40. Any lichen of the genus Lecanora.
43. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
44. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
45. Cut off the testicles.
47. The sixth month of the civil year.
48. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
50. Partial or complete loss of hearing.
52. An associate degree in nursing.
55. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
58. Jordan's port.
59. Not firmly fastened or secured.
62. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
66. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
67. A phylum including.
71. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
72. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
73. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
74. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
75. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
76. A great raja.
77. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).

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1. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
2. Not easy.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. A young woman making her debut into society.
5. (combining form) Former.
6. Large scissors with strong blades.
7. The 10th and last incarnation of Vishnu.
8. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
10. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
11. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
12. United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935).
13. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
14. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
21. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
23. A two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
27. The capital and largest city of Austria.
30. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
31. Someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession.
33. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
34. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
35. Of texture.
37. A flexible container with a single opening.
39. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
41. Offering little or no hope.
42. Wildly disordered.
46. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
49. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
51. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
53. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
54. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
56. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
57. Leave immediately.
60. A condition requiring relief.
61. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
63. A city in northern India.
64. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
65. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
68. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
69. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
70. British dominion over India (1757-1947).

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