Crossword Puzzle Number 5377 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
4. A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
12. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. United States poet (1884-1933).
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
18. A common Old World wading bird with long red legs.
20. Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship.
21. A formal expression of praise.
22. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
34. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
36. Wearing or provided with clothing.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
45. Any competition.
46. Make lighter or brighter.
48. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
50. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
51. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading.
52. Cause annoyance in.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. The sacred city of Lamaism.
62. East Asian perennial herbs.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
66. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
69. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
72. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
73. Rate of revolution of a motor.
74. English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979).
76. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal.
77. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
78. A great raja.
79. Of southern Europe.

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1. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
2. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
3. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
4. Relating to or being a member of an ethnic group.
5. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
6. Type genus of the Ranidae.
7. Capital of modern Macedonia.
8. A state in north central United States.
9. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
12. Not in good physical or mental health.
13. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
14. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
19. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
23. Fallow deer.
24. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
27. Smeared thickly.
29. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
30. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
32. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
33. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
35. A state in northwestern North America.
37. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
39. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
40. Beads threaded on a string.
42. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
43. One of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it.
44. Ground snakes.
47. An edict of the Russian tsar.
49. Of or relating to an oracle.
55. Make a smudge on.
56. A genus of Caltha.
57. Two items of the same kind.
58. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
60. A shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary.
61. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
63. Squash bugs.
65. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
67. An onerous or difficult concern.
68. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
70. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
71. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
75. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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