Crossword Puzzle Number 6675 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
4. Smeared with something that soils or stains.
12. The money risked on a gamble.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
16. Tending to cure or restore to health.
17. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
18. Used of a single unit or thing.
19. Any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats.
20. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
21. A language of Australian aborigines.
23. A student who studies excessively.
24. Water frozen in the solid state.
25. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
26. An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force).
28. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
33. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.
37. Avatar of Vishnu.
41. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. Oral antiarrhythmic medication (trade name Tambocor) used as a last resort in treating arrhythmias.
44. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
47. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
48. The act of scanning.
51. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
52. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
54. Belonging to some prior time.
57. A genus of Ploceidae.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
68. A branch of the Tai languages.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. A bachelor's degree in theology.
74. Capital and largest city of Bosnia.
76. A light touch or stroke.
77. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
78. A hiding place.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
2. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
3. Administer an oil or ointment to.
4. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
5. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
6. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
7. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
8. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
9. Engage or hire for work.
10. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
11. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
12. (botany) Divided into two lobes.
13. Any plant of the genus Erica.
14. A bureaucrat who levies taxes.
22. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
27. A city in northeastern Ohio.
29. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
30. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
31. An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members.
32. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
34. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
35. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
36. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
38. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
39. An island northwest of Wales.
40. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
46. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
49. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
50. United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945).
53. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. Serving as or forming a base.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Jordan's port.
63. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
66. A Hindu prince or king in India.
67. Again but in a new or different way.
70. The residue that remains when something is burned.
71. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
72. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
75. A state in the eastern United States.

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