Crossword Puzzle Number 5840 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
4. (Italian) The proprietor of an inn.
12. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
15. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
16. Relating to bees or beekeeping.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.
20. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
21. Monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression.
23. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
24. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
26. Lighted by sunlight.
29. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
31. Gone by.
32. Painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible.
36. Great in vertical dimension.
38. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
39. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
40. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
48. (used especially of glances) Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.
50. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
51. A person who yields or surrenders.
52. The capital and largest city of Japan.
53. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
55. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
63. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
67. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Voltaren) that is administered only orally.
69. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
72. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
73. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
74. A member of a squad on a team.
75. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
76. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
77. Of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of of taxonomic classification that he proposed.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
2. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
3. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
4. (music) The speed at which a composition is to be played.
5. Greek god of light.
6. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
7. Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles.
8. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
9. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
10. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps.
11. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
12. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
22. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
27. The innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel).
28. A duct that provides ventilation as in mines.
30. Scottish dramatist and novelist.
33. Pass in a specific way.
34. A just detectable amount.
35. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
37. (Scotland) A landowner.
41. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
42. Towards the side away from the wind.
43. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
44. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
45. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
47. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
49. Genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers.
54. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
57. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
58. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
60. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
65. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
66. The basic unit of money in Peru.
68. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
70. The sign language used in the United States.
71. Estrangement from god.

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