Crossword Puzzle Number 6681 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
5. Of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings.
12. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
15. English essayist (1775-1834).
16. Mites and ticks.
17. A metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters.
18. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
19. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
22. The sixth month of the civil year.
24. Mostly tropical songbird.
26. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
27. An insane person.
30. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
32. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
33. Minor or subordinate.
34. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
38. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
39. A Mid-Atlantic state.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
46. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
49. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
51. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
52. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
54. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
55. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
56. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. The residue that remains when something is burned.
61. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
63. The business of a dairy.
68. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
69. Being nine more than ninety.
71. Not normal.
72. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
77. (meteorology) Of an air current or wind.
78. Water soaked soil.

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1. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
2. A city in northwestern Syria.
3. Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
4. A usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.).
5. The honeycreepers.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. Of or in or relating to the nose.
8. (of securities) Bought and sold on a stock exchange.
9. A genus of Mustelidae.
10. A state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government).
11. (British) Your grandmother.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
14. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
23. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
25. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
28. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
29. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
31. Find repugnant.
35. The sacred city of Lamaism.
36. Of a kind not seen before.
37. Squash bugs.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
43. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. A town in northern Egypt.
48. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
50. The capital and largest city of Greece.
53. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
57. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
59. A shoe carved from a single block of wood.
60. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
62. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
64. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
65. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
70. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
73. Informal terms for a mother.
74. 16 ounces.

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