Crossword Puzzle Number 6874 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Standard temperature and pressure.
4. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
12. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Subject to popular election.
17. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
18. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
19. Someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections.
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
23. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and a forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
29. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
30. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
31. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
33. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
38. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
42. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
43. The act of scanning.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
49. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
52. Used of a single unit or thing.
53. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
54. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
55. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
57. A person who rules or guides or inspires others.
60. An accidental happening.
63. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
66. A town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula.
69. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
71. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
75. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
76. A fraudulent business scheme.
77. The act or process of measuring.
78. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
79. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
80. Any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis.
81. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.

DOWN

1. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
2. Tight-fitting trousers.
3. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
4. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. Transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.
7. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
9. The brightest star in the sky.
10. A member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia.
11. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
12. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
13. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
14. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
22. A motley assortment of things.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
27. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
28. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
32. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
34. An industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border.
35. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
36. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
37. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
39. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
40. Type genus of the Ranidae.
41. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
44. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
47. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
48. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
50. The capital of Australia.
51. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. Basic principles of the cosmos.
59. East Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals.
61. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
62. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
65. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
67. Remove from office.
68. The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
70. Dearly loved.
72. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
73. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
74. A yearning for something or to do something.

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