Crossword Puzzle Number 6840 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
5. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
12. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
15. Employed in accomplishing something.
16. In a civil manner.
17. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
18. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
19. A particular environment or walk of life.
20. An ordered reference standard.
22. A showy outward display.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
29. (chemistry) Relating to or containing the azido group N3.
32. The vein in the center of a leaf.
36. Occurring widely (as to many people).
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
42. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
43. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
44. The habitation of wild animals.
45. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
53. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
55. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
57. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
61. Small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark.
68. God of fire.
69. An abstract part of something.
72. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
73. Extremely robust.
74. All the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins.
75. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
76. 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.
77. English translator and Protestant martyr.
78. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.

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1. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist.
2. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
3. Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers.
4. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
5. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
6. Engage or hire for work.
7. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
8. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
9. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. An amino acid containing sulfur that is found in most proteins.
12. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
13. Type genus of the Hylidae.
14. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
21. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
23. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
24. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
26. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
28. The deck between the bridge and the forecastle.
30. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
34. (Babylonian and Assyrian) Goddess of love and fertility and war.
35. Enter or assume a certain state or condition.
37. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
38. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
46. A state in northwestern North America.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
50. Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge.
54. A tangible and visible entity.
56. A member of the eastern branch of the Sioux.
58. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
59. United States choreographer noted for his use of African elements (born in 1931).
60. Obvious and dull.
62. A city in northern India.
63. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
64. English monk and scholar (672-735).
65. The twelfth month of the civil year.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
70. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
71. Used in combination to denote the middle.

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