Crossword Puzzle Number 5407 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945).
11. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
15. How long something has existed.
16. With one leg on each side.
17. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
18. The fatty flesh of eel.
19. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
20. Cuddling and kissing.
21. South American herb with sticky glandular foliage.
23. Italian sculptor (1500-1571).
25. With rapid movements.
27. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
28. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
30. The capital of Uzbekistan.
34. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
38. The second largest state.
39. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
40. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
41. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
43. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
44. A doctor's degree in education.
46. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
48. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
50. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
51. Any fern of the genus Woodsia.
54. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
55. A person who habitually pretends to be something he is not.
57. Used of a single unit or thing.
58. Suggestive of the supernatural.
60. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
61. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
63. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
65. Pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit.
70. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
75. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
77. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
78. A decree that prohibits something.
79. A great raja.
80. The cry made by sheep.

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1. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. A loose cloak with a hood.
4. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
5. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
6. Standard temperature and pressure.
7. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
8. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
9. A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.
10. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
11. Regarded with aversion.
12. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
13. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
14. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
22. Large African forest tree yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber.
24. Immediately past.
26. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
29. A field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay.
31. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
32. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
33. Blood-sucking African fly.
35. Being seven more than fifty.
36. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
37. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
42. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
45. Medium large breed of dog of German origin with a glossy black and tan coat.
47. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
49. Hoary alyssum.
52. A person of unquestioning obedience.
53. Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC.
56. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
59. A domain in which something is dominant.
62. An associate degree in nursing.
64. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
66. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
67. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
68. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
69. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
71. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
76. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.

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