Crossword Puzzle Number 6872 (Medium Grid)

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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
5. Painter of the Florentine school.
12. An associate degree in applied science.
15. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
16. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
17. A master's degree in business.
18. (horseshoes) The throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake.
20. A shelter with perches for fowl or other birds.
21. The longest division of geological time.
22. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
23. A native-born Israeli.
25. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
26. The act of scanning.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
33. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
34. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
35. Wearing or provided with clothing.
40. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
43. A pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance.
46. Testacean rhizopods.
50. Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree.
51. Inflammation of the ileum.
52. The act of refusing a request.
53. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
55. Lacking companions or companionship.
56. (Babylonian) The sky god.
57. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
60. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
63. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
65. Whip scorpions.
69. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
72. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
73. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
74. A genus of Cricetidae.
75. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
76. Make amends for.
77. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
78. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.

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1. A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A large quantity of written matter.
4. Ruffed grouse.
5. Of or relating to the heart.
6. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
7. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
8. A rapid bustling commotion.
9. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
11. Informal terms for a meal.
12. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
13. Terminate before completion, as of a computer process, a mission, etc..
14. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
19. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
28. Monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression.
31. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
32. Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism.
36. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
37. Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail.
38. German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925).
39. Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter.
41. (anatomy) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
42. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
44. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
45. Husband of Elizabeth II of Great Britain (born 1921).
47. Tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers.
48. A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed.
49. Pasta in long slender flat strips.
54. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
59. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
61. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
62. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
64. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
66. Noisy talk.
67. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
68. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
70. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
71. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.

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