Crossword Puzzle Number 5757 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Trade name for a drug containing an antihistamine and a decongestant.
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
17. A small piece of cloth.
18. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
20. French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917).
21. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
22. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
23. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
25. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm.
26. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
35. The capital and largest city of Norway.
38. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
39. In bed.
40. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
41. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
43. Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
45. The branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies.
48. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
49. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
50. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
53. The mints.
56. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
57. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
60. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
61. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
63. English essayist (1775-1834).
67. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
71. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
72. Being of the same opinion.
74. The month following February and preceding April.
75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
77. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.

DOWN

1. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
2. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
3. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
4. Basic principles of the cosmos.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. A form of address for a man.
7. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
8. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
9. A resource.
10. A person who is confined.
11. Pearl oysters.
12. An instinctive motive.
13. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
14. A city in northern India.
19. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
28. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
30. God of fire.
32. The inner sole of a shoe or boot.
33. As of a conifer.
34. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
36. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
37. A Russian river.
42. Slanderous defamation.
44. United States baseball manager (1890-1975).
46. Muslim name for God.
47. Tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States.
51. United States feminist (born in 1934).
52. The activity of persuading someone to buy.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
58. A master's degree in literature.
59. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
62. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
64. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
65. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
66. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
68. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
69. How long something has existed.
70. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
73. A state in southeastern United States.

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