Crossword Puzzle Number 6374 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Preserve of crushed fruit.
4. Having the same sound (especially vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables.
12. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. Large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning.
17. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
18. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
19. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
20. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
22. A person who has been freed from slavery.
24. Type genus of the Bramidae.
25. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
26. The grasses.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A ludicrously false statement.
35. A fraudulent business scheme.
38. The content of cognition.
41. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
42. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
43. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
44. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
45. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
47. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
49. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
50. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
51. Any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves.
54. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
58. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
59. Fiddler crabs.
61. Work hard.
63. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
67. The brightest star in Scorpius.
71. A Scottish word.
72. Someone with the power to settle matters at will.
75. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
76. An Eskimo hut.
77. The savage and excessive killing of people.
78. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
79. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote.
80. A festival featuring African-American culture.
81. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

DOWN

1. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
2. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
3. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
4. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
5. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
6. Disposed of as useless.
7. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
8. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
9. A short synopsis.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
12. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
13. Being of delicate or slender build.
14. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
21. Of or relating to a language that arises from contact between two other languages and has features of both.
23. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
27. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
28. Issue an injunction.
30. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
32. Black wine grape originally from the region of Bordeaux.
33. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
34. Being one more than ten.
36. A can for storing tea.
37. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
39. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
40. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent.
52. A country north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea.
53. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
55. Put down by force or intimidation.
56. A large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman.
57. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
62. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
64. French poet and novelist and dramatist.
65. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
66. Brightly colored and showy.
68. A Hindu prince or king in India.
69. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
70. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
73. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
74. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.

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