Crossword Puzzle Number 6274 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
5. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
12. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
15. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).
16. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
17. The month following February and preceding April.
18. A severe or trying experience.
20. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
21. Being one more than two.
22. Situated in front of the anus.
24. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
37. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
38. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
40. Capable of relieving pain.
44. Tropical Asian starlings.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. Specify individually.
50. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
51. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
52. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
53. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
58. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
59. Short and fat.
62. Any long and tedious address or recital.
66. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
67. A narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative.
71. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
72. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
73. Relating to or caused by wind.
75. Rotary motion of an object around its own axis.
76. How long something has existed.
77. Large drinking vessel with one handle.
78. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.

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1. The event of something ending.
2. A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere.
3. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
4. Offering little or no hope.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
8. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
9. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
10. An artificial language.
11. A natural cavity or hollow in a bone.
12. Perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America.
13. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
14. 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.
19. Reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. Exultantly proud and joyful.
29. A mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure.
30. Isolated from others.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. Adorned by inlays.
34. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
36. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
39. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
41. Of or in or relating to the nose.
42. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
43. Small chevrotain of southeastern Asia.
46. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
47. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
49. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
54. Pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves.
55. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
56. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
57. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
60. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
61. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
63. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
64. World's longest river (4187 miles).
65. A university in Connecticut.
68. Seed of a pea plant.
69. An electrically charged particle.
70. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
74. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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