Crossword Puzzle Number 5909 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
4. A family of small soft-bodied insects that feed on decaying vegetation.
12. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses.
17. A master's degree in education.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. Someone employed by a gas company.
20. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
22. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
24. Having the form of a cylinder or tube.
25. Annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers.
27. Considerate and solicitous care.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
35. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
39. Dearly loved.
41. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
42. Before noon.
44. Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war).
45. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
46. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
48. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
49. A short composition for a solo instrument.
52. A city in northern India.
53. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
54. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
57. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
59. A state in northwestern North America.
60. An informal term for a father.
64. Highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet.
69. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
70. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
73. An artificial source of visible illumination.
74. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
75. A politician who is running for public office.
76. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
77. A decree that prohibits something.
78. A tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding.
79. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.

DOWN

1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
4. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
7. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
8. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
9. Without the natural or usual covering.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. More of the same adv.
12. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
13. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
14. Not in action or at work.
21. Of or relating to alleles.
23. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
26. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
29. An outstanding example of its kind.
32. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
33. Unable to move or resist motion.
34. Be in accord.
36. An uproarious party.
37. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
38. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
40. The content of cognition.
43. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
47. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
50. Of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people.
51. Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness.
55. A loud harsh or strident noise.
56. (of eggs) No longer edible.
58. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
63. More than enough in size or scope or capacity.
65. A special way of doing something.
66. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
67. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
68. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
71. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
72. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.

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