Crossword Puzzle Number 6253 (Medium Grid)

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1. Containing as much or as many as is possible or normal.
5. A large zodiacal constellation between Libra and Sagittarius.
12. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
15. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
16. Marked by correspondence or resemblance.
17. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
18. A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery.
20. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
21. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
22. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason.
24. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
26. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
29. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
31. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
32. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
33. Vigorously passionate.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
44. A flexible container with a single opening.
45. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
49. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
51. A state in midwestern United States.
53. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
55. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
57. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
62. (botany) Of or relating to or functioning as a cambium.
66. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
67. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
70. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
71. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
72. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
74. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
75. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
76. Relating to or characteristic of an apogee.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
2. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
3. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
4. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
5. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
6. Being one more than one hundred.
7. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
8. Humorously vulgar.
9. One of the common people.
10. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
11. Genus of tropical shrubs and trees having usually odd-pinnate leaves with large leaflets and pink to reddish wood.
12. Having a pair of equal and opposite charges.
13. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines.
14. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.
19. So scary as to cause chills and shudders.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
27. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
28. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
30. An administrative unit of government.
34. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
35. To what extent or amount or degree.
36. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
37. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
38. In bed.
39. A narrow way or road.
40. Advanced in years.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. Jordan's port.
46. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
47. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
48. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
50. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.
52. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
54. A fast gait of a horse.
56. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
58. Malicious burning to destroy property.
59. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
63. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
64. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
65. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
68. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
69. A periodic paperback publication.
73. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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