Crossword Puzzle Number 5987 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Uttering in an irritated tone.
5. Small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers.
11. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
15. Belonging to some prior time.
16. The expensive white fur of the ermine.
17. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
18. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
19. Marked by simplicity.
20. A standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.
21. A naturally occuring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils.
23. Cause to feel sure.
25. As much as a teacup will hold.
27. Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil.
28. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
30. The distinctive spirit of a people or an era.
31. An informal term for a father.
33. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
38. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
39. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
43. A doctor's degree in religion.
47. Music composed for dancing the saraband.
49. Remove the fangs from (canines, snakes, etc.).
51. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
52. Terminate before completion, as of a computer process, a mission, etc..
54. Made of fir or pine.
55. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
58. A monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America.
61. Type genus of the Rhamnaceae.
66. Wool of the alpaca.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
71. Octopuses and paper nautilus.
73. Not in good physical or mental health.
74. A boy or man.
75. A great raja.
76. Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.

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1. A mechanism that can move automatically.
2. Of or like a feeble old woman.
3. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
6. (Greek mythology) God of love.
7. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
8. United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914).
9. Remove from political office.
10. Cause to become detached or separated.
11. A state in midwestern United States.
12. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
13. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
14. A medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard.
22. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
24. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
26. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
29. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
32. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
36. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
37. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
40. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
41. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
42. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
44. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
45. A communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc.
46. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. Trees native to East Indies having pinnate leaves.
50. A highwayman who robs on foot.
53. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
56. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
57. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
59. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
60. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
62. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
63. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
64. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
65. Containing or filled with salt.
67. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
68. The month following March and preceding May.
72. The fifth day of the week.

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