Crossword Puzzle Number 6040 (Medium Grid)

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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Sink below the surface.
12. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
16. Relating to bees or beekeeping.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. Type genus of the Turdidae.
20. The brother of your father or mother.
21. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
22. Of or involving or contained in the arteries.
24. Unknown god.
26. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
27. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
29. Of or relating to the cochlea of the ear.
31. Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India.
35. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
37. A New England state.
41. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
42. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
45. A French abbot.
48. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
49. Live in or as if in a tent.
50. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
52. Before noon.
54. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
57. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
58. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
62. 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).
63. A barge or barge-like vessel used for dredging.
67. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
68. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
70. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
72. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
73. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
74. Strong feeling or emotion.
75. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
76. On or toward the lee.
77. German theologian and mystic (1260-1327).
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
2. An Asian river between China and Russia.
3. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
4. Large elongated compressed food fish of European Atlantic waters.
5. The highest or uppermost side of anything.
6. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
7. A fighter who batters the opponent.
8. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
9. A small two-wheeled cart for one passenger.
10. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
11. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
12. Among the largest bony fish.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
19. A city in north-central India.
23. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
25. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
28. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
30. Of or related to or derived from oats.
32. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
36. A set of data arranged in rows and columns.
38. Made dim or less bright.
39. An accidental happening.
40. Characteristic of false pride.
43. A state in southeastern United States.
44. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
46. Any plant of the genus Bergenia.
47. Situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building.
51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
55. Of or relating to or involving an area.
56. Lower in esteem.
59. British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956).
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
64. A strong cord v 1.
65. A piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments.
66. A wound made by cutting.
69. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
71. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.

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