Crossword Puzzle Number 6589 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Give a nickname to.
4. The animal order including amoebas.
12. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
15. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
16. A sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract).
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. Regional and archaic.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
24. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot.
25. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
27. A form of address for a man.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
35. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
40. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
41. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
42. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
43. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
51. Move by saltation.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
55. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
61. Hard ticks.
64. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
65. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
69. The largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world.
72. (informal) Roused to anger.
73. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
74. A building where animals are butchered.
75. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
76. A doctor's degree in education.
77. French lexicographer (1817-1875).
78. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

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1. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
2. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
3. God of wealth and love.
4. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
5. A crime syndicate in the United States.
6. Used of a single unit or thing.
7. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. A parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados.
9. The first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor.
10. An uproarious party.
11. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
12. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
13. A narrow way or road.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. Lower in esteem.
26. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
30. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
32. A genus of Ploceidae.
33. Fly a plane.
34. Someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall.
36. A feeling of intense anger.
37. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
38. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. Of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible.
46. A fibrous amphibole.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
48. A city in central New York.
50. A sudden short attack.
53. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
56. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
57. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
58. Right-hand page.
59. A genus of Viperidae.
60. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
63. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
66. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
67. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
70. (Sumerian) Sun god.
71. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.

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