Crossword Puzzle Number 5961 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
4. Coextensive with the order Cestida.
12. A unit of pressure.
15. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
16. Beliefs and practices of a sect of Orthodox Jews.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.
19. A person who is of equal standing with another in a group.
21. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
22. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
24. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
27. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
30. United States writer (1871-1900).
31. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
37. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. A midday meal.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right.
45. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
46. The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers.
49. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
50. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
54. A device that launches aircraft from a warship.
56. Firmly fastened or secured against opening.
59. British immunologist (born in Brazil) who studied tissue transplants and discovered that the rejection of grafts was an immune response (1915-1987).
61. Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship.
65. Linear with respect to each of two variables or positions.
67. Having or arranged in tiers.
68. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
69. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
72. Any loose flowing garment.
73. A local computer network for communication between computers.
74. (used with count nouns) Of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many.
76. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
77. Either extremity of something that has length.
78. In a sleek glossy manner.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
4. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
7. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
8. In the Roman calendar.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
11. The square of a body of any size of type.
12. Make less active or intense.
13. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
14. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
20. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
23. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. American author of inspirational adventure stories for boys.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. Small genus of Eurasian herbs.
33. Very dark black.
34. Freight car without permanent sides or roof.
35. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes.
36. Order by virtue of superior authority.
38. Only the bowfins.
40. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
41. Dry red Italian table wine from the Chianti region of Tuscany.
42. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
47. A rural area where farming is practiced.
48. The property characteristic of old age.
51. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
55. In a tasty manner.
57. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
58. Someone who operates a barge.
60. Do without.
62. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
66. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
70. Irritate or vex.
71. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
75. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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