Crossword Puzzle Number 6325 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
4. A woman's silk or lace scarf.
12. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
15. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. Bound by contract.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
19. Coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico.
20. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
22. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
24. Lyrebirds and scrubbirds.
26. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
30. Informal terms for money.
31. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
33. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
34. Type genus of the Anatidae.
37. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
41. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
49. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
50. United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945).
52. Qualities that do not give pleasure to the senses.
54. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
55. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
57. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
59. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
68. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
71. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
74. Having much flesh (especially fat).
75. (informal) Of the highest quality.
76. A corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation.
77. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.

DOWN

1. Adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain.
4. The way in which someone or something is composed.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
7. A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances.
8. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
9. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
10. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
11. Chief port of Yemen.
12. United States baseball player (born 1925).
13. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
14. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
21. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
23. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
25. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
27. 1 species.
28. In operation or operational.
29. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
32. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
35. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
36. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
38. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
39. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
40. In the Roman calendar.
42. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
43. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
46. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
47. The capital of Tajikistan.
48. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
51. Bar temporarily.
53. The seventh month of the civil year.
56. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
58. Lower in esteem.
60. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
61. New Zealand conifer.
62. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
64. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
66. A commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River.
67. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
69. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
70. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
72. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
73. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.

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