Crossword Puzzle Number 6889 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. Low spreading tropical American shrub with long slender leaves used to make a mildly stimulating drink resembling tea.
12. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
15. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
16. Of or relating to the gonads.
17. A small piece of cloth.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. Edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe.
22. Bleeding into the interior chamber of the eye.
24. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
25. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
28. A state in east central United States.
30. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. A public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music.
35. Make reference to.
39. A powerful operating system developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
40. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
41. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
42. An iconic mental representation.
43. The cry made by sheep.
48. A column of light (as from a beacon).
49. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
51. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. Relating to or located near the organ that produces tears.
55. A master's degree in business.
57. A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles.
62. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
65. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
71. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
72. A sudden violent spontaneous occurrence of an undesirable condition.
74. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
75. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
76. Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.
77. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.

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1. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
2. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
3. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
4. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
5. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
6. A Hindu theistic philosophy.
7. An associate degree in nursing.
8. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
9. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
11. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
12. Using speech rather than writing.
13. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
14. American novelist (1909-1955).
19. Bar temporarily.
21. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
23. United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981).
26. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
27. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
29. A state in the western United States.
32. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
33. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
34. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
36. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
37. One thousand periods per second.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. Being two more than twenty.
45. A republic on the western coast of central Africa.
46. An account describing incidents or events.
47. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
50. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
52. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
54. Sacred text of Zoroastrianism.
56. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
58. A runner in a one-mile race.
59. A master's degree in literature.
60. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
61. Everyone except the clergy.
63. In bed.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. A three-tone Chadic language.
68. A state of southwestern India.
69. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
73. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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