Crossword Puzzle Number 6414 (Medium Grid)

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1. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
5. Large European marine food fish.
11. The highest level or degree attainable.
15. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
16. Traveling on horseback.
17. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
18. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A person who hates.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
24. A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
28. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
33. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
36. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
40. A French abbot.
42. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
43. Quality of being active or spirited or vigorous.
44. A state in southeastern United States.
45. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
50. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
53. Any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification.
54. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
56. A city of central Sri Lanka that was the last capital of the ancient kings of Ceylon.
57. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
58. Many times at short intervals.
61. An irritating or obnoxious person.
63. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
67. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
68. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
72. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
73. A region of southern Italy (forming the instep of the Italian `boot').
74. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
76. Affect with wonder.
77. By bad luck.

DOWN

1. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
2. God of death.
3. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
4. A motley assortment of things.
5. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
8. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
9. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
10. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood.
13. Any of a group of storm gods.
14. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
26. Cast again, in a different role.
27. A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle).
29. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
30. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
31. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
34. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
35. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
37. Malicious burning to destroy property.
38. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
39. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.
41. A postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory.
46. Small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia.
49. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
51. Provide commentary for a film, for example.
52. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
55. Constituting the undiminished entirety.
59. A villainous Jew in Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist".
60. A step in walking or running.
62. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
64. The food served and eaten at one time.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
69. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
70. (Babylonian) The sky god.
71. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.

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