Crossword Puzzle Number 6071 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The month following January and preceding March.
4. The academic world.
12. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
15. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
16. A port city is southern Indonesia.
17. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
18. (Irish) The sea personified.
19. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
20. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
22. Genus of powdery mildews.
24. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
25. Blood-sucking African fly.
32. From the kapok tree.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. One of the rulers in an oligarchy.
41. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
42. Cause to ripen.
43. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
45. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
49. Inflammation of the aorta.
52. Large Indian antelope.
55. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
56. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
60. A loose cloak with a hood.
63. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
67. Toward the mouth or oral region.
68. Strong and sharp.
71. Greek mythology.
72. Take (someone) as a wife.
73. A small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication.
75. The month following March and preceding May.
76. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
77. A festival featuring African-American culture.
78. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.

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1. A boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef.
2. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
3. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
4. Horned vipers.
5. Colony of the United Kingdom located on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain.
6. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
7. The specified day of the month.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. Type genus of the Manidae.
10. Not out.
11. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
12. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
13. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
21. A military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.
23. A person of unquestioning obedience.
26. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
27. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
28. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
29. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
30. A severe recurring vascular headache.
31. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
33. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
34. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity.
35. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
37. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display.
38. As if new.
39. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
50. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
51. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
53. (of a male animal) Having the testicles removed.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
57. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
58. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
59. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
61. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
62. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
64. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
65. Type genus of the Nepidae.
66. Waterproofed canvas.
69. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
70. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
74. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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