Crossword Puzzle Number 5697 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A master's degree in business.
4. A protective cloth covering for an injured eye.
12. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
17. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
18. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
20. (of the feet of water birds) Having three toes connected by a thin fold of skin.
22. The capital of the state of Maine.
23. Vasoconstrictor (trade names Privine and Sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation.
24. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
25. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
26. Characterized by absence of emotional agitation.
27. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
32. Heal or recover.
33. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
35. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
39. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
42. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
44. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
47. Unhealthy looking.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. The seventh and last day of the week.
51. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
52. Half the width of an em.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
57. Of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times.
58. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
62. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. Liveliness of mind or spirit.
70. Come to pass.
71. The money risked on a gamble.
72. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
74. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
75. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
76. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns.
77. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.

DOWN

1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
3. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
4. A permanent council of the United Nations.
5. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
6. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
7. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
10. Of or relating to or functioning as a clause.
11. Ground snakes.
12. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
13. Of or related to or derived from oats.
14. A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
19. Of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage.
21. A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law.
28. Of or belonging to an aecium.
29. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. Lower in esteem.
37. British composer (1857-1934).
38. Like or containing meat.
40. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
45. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
46. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
49. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
53. An informal term for a father.
54. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
55. Make less active or intense.
59. Advanced in years.
60. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
61. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
63. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
64. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
65. (Greek mythology) God of love.
68. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
69. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
73. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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