Crossword Puzzle Number 586 (Medium Grid)

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1. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
5. Document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability.
11. A telephone connection.
15. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
16. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.
17. A shade of blue tinged with green.
18. Found along western Atlantic coast.
19. Armor plate that protects the chest.
21. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
24. A alloy of tin with some copper and antimony.
26. Of or concerning Qatar.
27. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
29. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
31. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
33. A fraudulent business scheme.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. Chief port of Yemen.
49. (biology) Having branches or flower heads that bend downward.
51. Marked with stria or striations.
53. The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating).
56. A Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast.
57. A card game for 2 players.
60. A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.
62. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
64. Produced by aphesis.
68. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
69. Capable of melting.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
74. Accumulated on a surface of a solid.
75. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
76. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
77. Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail.
78. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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1. A French abbot.
2. Gather, as of as crops.
3. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
4. Cap that fits over the hub of a wheel.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
7. Closely constrained or constricted or constricting.
8. A member of the Uniat Church.
9. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
10. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. A member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico.
12. Jordan's port.
13. Of or relating to or associated with the moon.
14. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
20. Beet lacking swollen root.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
23. Short and fat.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Any system of principles or beliefs.
32. In bed.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
37. (Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship.
38. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
39. Either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms.
41. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
43. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
44. Boas and pythons.
46. Be earlier in time.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
50. Of or relating to the intima.
52. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
54. Unknown god.
55. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. Dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds.
59. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
61. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
63. In addition.
65. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
66. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
67. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
70. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
71. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.

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