Crossword Puzzle Number 6272 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. Faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid.
12. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
15. Any high mountain.
16. An upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments.
17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
21. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
22. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
24. A landlocked principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.
26. A gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid.
27. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
29. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
30. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
31. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
35. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
40. Highly excited.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body.
45. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
47. Immediately past.
49. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
50. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
51. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
52. To gain with effort.
55. Affect with wonder.
57. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
67. British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968).
70. Being of the age 13 through 19.
72. (Norse mythology) Trickster.
73. Class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. Advanced in years.
78. Having a melody (as distinguished from recitative).
80. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
81. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
82. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. The capital of Morocco.
2. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
3. A winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound.
4. Cleaning with a mop.
5. Relating to or located near a tibia.
6. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
7. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
8. A drink resembling beer.
9. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
10. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
11. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire.
12. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
13. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
14. Lacking excess flesh.
19. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
23. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
25. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
28. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
32. A plant fiber used in making rope or sacks.
33. A yellow quartz.
34. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
36. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
37. Loose temporary stitches.
38. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
39. Many times at short intervals.
41. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
44. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
46. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
48. Freetail bats.
53. A small island.
54. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
56. God of death.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. An expression of greeting.
62. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
63. Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
68. A company emblem or device.
69. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
71. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
74. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
75. (Irish) The sea personified.
79. A Russian river.

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