Crossword Puzzle Number 5798 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Standard temperature and pressure.
4. Become adolescent.
12. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
15. A strong emotion.
16. Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
20. Mark with a date, and often with a place, to, as of a newspaper article or a letter.
22. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
24. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
25. Having or joined by a seam or seams.
27. A genus of Lamnidae.
29. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
35. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
38. Minor or subordinate.
39. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
41. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
45. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
47. Washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
50. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
53. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
55. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
56. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
58. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
59. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
62. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
64. (Greek mythology) The supreme god of ancient mythology.
68. The basic unit of money in China.
72. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
75. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
76. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
77. United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922).
78. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.

DOWN

1. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
2. Thin and fit.
3. A tributary of the Rio Grande.
4. Jordan's port.
5. Source of a tough elastic wood.
6. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
7. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
8. (prefix) Within.
9. Prince's plume.
10. A short sleep (usually not in bed).
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
13. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
19. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
21. A member of the Manchu speaking people of Mongolian race of Manchuria.
23. A bachelor's degree in religion.
26. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
28. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
33. Wild geese.
34. Someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish of other foods.
36. Specified in advance.
37. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
40. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
42. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
43. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).
44. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
46. An informal conversation.
51. A city and port in northern Jutland.
52. Affect with wonder.
54. A town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River.
57. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
60. Turned or twisted toward one side.
61. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
63. At or constituting a border or edge.
65. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
66. United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981).
67. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
69. The sound made by a cow or bull.
70. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
71. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
73. A unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt.
74. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.

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