Crossword Puzzle Number 6729 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bachelor's degree in theology.
4. A town in northern Egypt.
11. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
20. Lower in esteem.
21. A sudden quick movement.
22. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
24. Put a new facing on, as of a garment.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
29. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
30. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
33. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
35. Same in identity.
36. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
42. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
51. City in eastern Belgium.
52. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. A government order imposing a trade barrier.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. By bad luck.
61. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
62. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
64. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
66. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
70. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
73. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
75. (geology) Used of the earliest known rocks.
76. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
77. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
78. A great raja.
79. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
3. A very troublesome child.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
6. Strike sharply.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
9. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
10. South American cavy.
11. Coffee trees.
12. Lessen the intensity of.
13. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
14. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705).
19. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
23. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
31. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
34. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
37. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
38. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
39. A voluptuously beautiful young woman.
40. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
41. A superior grade of black tea.
43. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
45. French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism.
46. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
48. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. Systematic investigation to establish facts.
50. Testacean rhizopods.
55. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
58. The capital of Turkey.
59. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
60. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
68. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
69. A city in northern India.
71. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
72. A pilgrimage to Mecca.

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