Crossword Puzzle Number 6599 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
4. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
11. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. A four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine.
17. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.
20. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.
21. By bad luck.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
25. Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed.
29. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
31. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
32. Treated with oil.
34. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
35. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
37. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
41. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
43. A quantity of no importance.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A rapid bustling commotion.
48. German physicist who derived Fechner's Law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887).
51. A woman sahib.
53. Cheap and shoddy.
54. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
55. Related by common characteristics or ancestry.
57. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
59. Having a woven pattern.
63. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
66. A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
69. The largest city of Cameroon.
72. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
73. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
74. Aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia.
76. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
77. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
78. Causing physical or especially psychological injury.
79. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.

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1. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
2. Heal or recover.
3. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
4. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
5. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
6. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
7. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
8. Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
9. Extremely evil or cruel.
10. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
11. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
12. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
13. Not restrained or confined or attached.
14. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
22. A native-born Israeli.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged.
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
30. Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window.
33. The shore of a lake.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
39. In bed.
40. A city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan.
42. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
44. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
47. A mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California.
49. Not faithful to a spouse or lover.
50. A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers.
52. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
56. 1 species.
58. A town in central Belgium.
60. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
61. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
62. A sailing vessel with two masts.
64. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
65. The habitation of wild animals.
67. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
70. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
71. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
75. In operation or operational.

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