Crossword Puzzle Number 558 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
12. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
15. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
16. A nonmetallic univalent element.
17. Water frozen in the solid state.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
21. By bad luck.
25. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
29. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
32. Remove color from.
36. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
40. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
41. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
43. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
44. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
48. Situated in a particular spot or position.
53. Genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs.
55. A short composition for a solo instrument.
57. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
58. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
61. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
63. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
67. An accidental happening.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
73. A popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain.
74. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
75. How long something has existed.
76. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
77. A young woman making her debut into society.

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
4. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
5. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
6. A vending machine from which you can get food.
7. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
8. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
9. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
10. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
11. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
12. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
13. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
14. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
20. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
22. The capital and largest city of South Korea.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
27. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
28. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
30. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
31. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
33. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
34. The wood of an African obeche tree.
35. An abundance of material possessions and resources.
37. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
46. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.
47. Jordan's port.
49. Employed in accomplishing something.
50. God of war and sky.
51. Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
56. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
59. 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.
60. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
62. Offering fun and gaiety.
64. Set down according to a plan.
65. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
69. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
70. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.

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