Crossword Puzzle Number 5579 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
5. A hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover.
12. Tag the base runner to get him out.
15. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
16. Constricted in size.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
20. Any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency.
21. Not in good physical or mental health.
22. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
23. A loss of will power.
27. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
29. Earnest or urgent request.
36. An infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation.
37. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
39. Cry plaintively.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. The range within which a voice can be heard.
44. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. The month following April and preceding June.
48. A substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Towards the side away from the wind.
55. Island in West Indies.
58. A city of southeastern Mexico.
62. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
65. A white trivalent metallic element.
66. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
67. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
70. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
71. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
74. A local computer network for communication between computers.
75. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
76. An island republic on the island of Iceland.
77. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.

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1. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
2. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. A Pacific island north of Australia.
8. A gray mineral consisting of cobalt arsenide and nickel.
9. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
10. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
11. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
12. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
13. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
14. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
19. A country on the island of Jamaica.
24. A Russian river.
25. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Semites.
28. A radioactive transuranic element that is similar to uranium.
30. An advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future.
31. Of a leaf shape.
32. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
33. Water buffalo of the Philippines.
34. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
35. The univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom.
38. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
50. A British reform school for youths between 16 and 22.
51. Enclosed in or set off by a border or box.
53. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
54. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
56. A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae.
57. The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean.
59. (archaic) Of persons.
60. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
61. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
63. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
64. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
68. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
69. A decree that prohibits something.
72. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
73. An informal term for a father.

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