Crossword Puzzle Number 6070 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. Stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal.
12. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
15. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
16. Of or relating to or formed by trees.
17. Fiddler crabs.
18. Pass by, as of time.
20. A style of glazed earthenware.
21. A flexible container with a single opening.
22. The capital of Morocco.
25. (microbiology) An infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid.
26. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
29. Roman scholar (116-27 BC).
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
38. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
40. A derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women.
43. A long slender cigar.
46. A human limb.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
51. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
53. A port in southern Sweden.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
58. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
61. Of or relating to a pointed conical tooth.
63. Goddess of fortune.
68. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
73. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
75. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
76. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
77. Argentinian cariama.
78. The basic unit of money in Albania.

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1. A European river.
2. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927).
5. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. A specific sequence of three adjacent bases on a strand of DNA or RNA that provides genetic code information for a particular amino acid.
8. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
9. A loose cloak with a hood.
10. An awkward stupid person.
11. In or of the month preceding the present one.
12. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
19. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits.
23. Neither warm or very cold.
24. A city in north-central India.
27. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
28. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
30. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
31. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
33. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
34. A deficiency of red blood cells.
36. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
37. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
39. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
41. A sum of money allotted on a regular basis.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
44. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
45. Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe.
50. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
52. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
57. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
59. A large number or amount.
60. Jordan's port.
62. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
64. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
65. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
66. Produced by a manufacturing process.
67. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
69. 32nd President of the United States.
70. Being two more than fifty.
74. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.

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