Crossword Puzzle Number 653 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A container.
4. Genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs.
12. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. Winter aconite.
17. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. Western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts.
20. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
22. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
24. United States golfer who won many major golf tournaments (born in 1912).
25. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
28. Lacking motor coordination.
30. Events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Feeling great rapture or delight.
38. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
42. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
44. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
45. Pertaining to or resembling Utopia.
48. Having a mental age of three to seven years.
50. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
51. Having winglike extensions.
52. Administer an oil or ointment to.
55. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
56. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
57. Distant in either space or time.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. (astronomy) A relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit.
67. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
72. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
73. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
74. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
75. An associate degree in applied science.
76. Freetail bats.
77. A light touch or stroke.

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1. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. A medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer.
4. Concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement.
5. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
6. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
7. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
8. Standard temperature and pressure.
9. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
10. Being one more than one.
11. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
12. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
13. Type genus of the Ranidae.
14. A sign of something about to happen.
21. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
23. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
26. Relating to or containing acetic acid.
27. Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
29. A cloth having a crisscross design.
31. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
32. Edible viscera of a fowl.
33. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
37. Repeated too often.
39. Person who makes a gift of property.
40. The right to buy or sell property at an agreed price.
41. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.
46. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
49. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
53. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
54. (Zen Buddhism) A state of sudden spiritual enlightenment.
58. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
60. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
62. Toward the mouth or oral region.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
64. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
65. God of love and erotic desire.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
69. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
70. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.

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