Crossword Puzzle Number 5929 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. Having the skin scraped off.
11. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
15. A doctor's degree in education.
16. Having feathered wings.
17. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
18. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
19. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
21. Jordan's port.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. A French abbot.
28. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
31. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. Uneaten and saved for eating later.
38. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
41. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
43. A city in northern India.
45. Someone who rows a boat.
48. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
50. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
51. The wife or widow of a czar.
52. A bachelor's degree in religion.
54. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
55. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
58. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
63. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
66. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
67. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
69. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
70. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
72. An associate degree in applied science.
73. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
74. More of the same adv.
76. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
78. Systematic investigation to establish facts.
79. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.

DOWN

1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. The capital of Western Samoa.
5. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
6. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
7. Segmented worms.
8. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
9. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. Protective garment worn by surgeons during operations.
12. A chemical compound containing the azido group combined with an element or radical.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
24. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
25. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir.
26. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
29. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
30. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
32. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
34. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).
35. English monk and scholar (672-735).
37. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
39. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
40. A relation that provides the foundation for something.
44. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
46. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
47. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
49. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
53. A member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley.
56. Type genus of the Rubiaceae.
57. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
59. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
60. Measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths.
61. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
62. State in northeastern India.
64. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
65. A sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information.
68. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
71. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
75. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).

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