Crossword Puzzle Number 543 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
4. Easily calmed or pacified.
12. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. A single symbol that represents an entire word or phrase.
17. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
18. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
20. English monk and scholar (672-735).
21. How long something has existed.
22. Produced by aphesis.
24. Being or containing or characterized by vowels.
26. Lower in esteem.
28. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
30. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
40. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
42. 100 chetrums equal 1 ngultrum.
43. Suitable for use as food.
46. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
47. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
48. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
49. Male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon.
53. A city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River.
54. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
56. Characterized by speed.
57. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
61. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
65. A pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times.
69. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
70. Having or using only one filament.
73. The cry made by sheep.
74. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
75. The literary intelligentsia.
76. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
77. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
78. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
79. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.

DOWN

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
3. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
4. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
5. United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight campion for 12 years (1914-1981).
6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
7. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A diacritical mark (u-curved) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound.
10. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
11. Cause to grow thin or weak.
12. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
13. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
25. A cravat with wide square ends.
27. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
29. A large fleet.
31. Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC).
32. Made tough by habitual exposure.
33. As follows.
35. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
36. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
37. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
38. Not fake or counterfeit.
41. Little known Kamarupan languages.
44. A model or standard for making comparisons.
45. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
50. Place or set apart.
51. Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
52. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
55. A person forced to flee from home or country.
58. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
60. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
62. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
63. Sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
64. Make reference to.
66. Very dark black.
67. Most important element.
68. A university in Connecticut.
71. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
72. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.

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