Crossword Puzzle Number 6906 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
5. Free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms.
12. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
16. An island in Antigua and Barbuda.
17. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
18. A notice of someone's death.
19. A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks.
20. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
21. An electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit.
23. Induce to have sex.
25. The first month of the civil year.
28. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
29. God of the underworld.
30. An Anatolian language.
32. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
36. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
40. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
41. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
43. Set down according to a plan.
44. Preserve of crushed fruit.
46. (psychology) An urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object.
48. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
54. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
56. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
58. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
59. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
63. Showing deterioration from age.
67. Of a firearm.
70. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
73. Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases.
74. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
75. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
76. Type genus of the Anatidae.
77. One thousandth of a second.
78. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. Primarily temporal sense.
2. A populous province in northeastern China.
3. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
4. A dog trained to guard property.
5. A former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders).
6. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
7. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
8. Receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart.
9. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
10. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
11. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
12. Sea milkwort.
13. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
14. A clan identified by their kinship to a common totemic object.
22. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
24. (statistics) Any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores.
26. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
27. A native or inhabitant of Slovakia.
31. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. Engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring).
35. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
37. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
38. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
39. A European river.
42. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
45. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
47. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. A recognizable kind.
53. French novelist.
55. The largest city of Cameroon.
57. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
60. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
64. An aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees.
65. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
66. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
68. Not widely known.
69. The goddess of the moon.
71. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
72. A partially opened flower.

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