Crossword Puzzle Number 6262 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle.
5. United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935).
11. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
15. God of love and erotic desire.
16. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
17. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
19. In societies practicing shamanism.
20. A sudden short attack.
21. An industrial region in the Ukraine.
23. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
25. Minor or subordinate.
26. Chief port of Yemen.
28. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
29. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
32. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
39. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
41. In or of the present month.
46. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
49. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
50. Wild ginger.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. Informal terms for a mother.
54. The sign language used in the United States.
55. North American water snakes.
57. Jordan's port.
59. A doctor's degree in education.
60. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
64. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
70. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
74. A short musical composition with words.
75. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
76. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
77. The template for protein synthesis.
78. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
79. Attack with teargas.
80. Type genus of the Anatidae.

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1. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
2. A city in east central Texas.
3. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981).
6. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
10. The capital of Bahrain.
11. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. Baby bed with high sides.
14. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
24. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
27. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
30. Be fully aware or cognizant of.
31. Born out of wedlock.
33. Having been read.
34. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
35. German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome.
36. German composer.
40. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
42. Violent pangs of suffering.
43. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
47. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
53. In bed.
56. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
58. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
61. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..
62. Wife of Balder.
63. Remove gas from.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
67. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
68. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
69. By bad luck.
71. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
72. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
73. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.

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