Crossword Puzzle Number 5927 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (British) Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit.
5. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
12. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
15. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
16. Give an education to.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
20. Any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers.
22. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
25. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
26. A festival featuring African-American culture.
28. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
29. A white trivalent metallic element.
31. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
32. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits.
38. Ground snakes.
40. The food served and eaten at one time.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. Tag the base runner to get him out.
50. Tenth month of the Revolutionary calendar (June and July).
52. Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.
54. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
55. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
56. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
58. 36th President of the United States.
59. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
63. A loose cloak with a hood.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
69. Squash bugs.
72. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
73. Take (someone) as a wife.
74. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
76. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
77. Indicating the most important performer or role.
78. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
79. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.

DOWN

1. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
2. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
3. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
4. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
6. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
9. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
10. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
12. A chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony.
13. A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
19. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
21. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
23. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
24. A woman of refinement.
27. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
30. Having a coating.
33. A loud resonant repeating noise.
34. English monk and scholar (672-735).
35. God of fire.
36. The act of scanning.
37. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
39. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. An East Indian sailor.
46. Lying in the same plane.
48. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
51. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
53. Used of small deformed creatures.
57. Wood of any of various alder trees.
60. Transient cessation of respiration.
61. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
62. Comical in an odd or whimsical manner.
64. Make editorial changes (in a text).
65. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
70. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
71. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
75. A state in northwestern North America.

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