Crossword Puzzle Number 6916 (Medium Grid)

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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A television broadcast.
12. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on the site of an ancient Inca city.
17. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. The seventh and last day of the week.
20. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A person who makes use of a thing.
27. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
29. The content of cognition.
31. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
34. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
40. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
41. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
43. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
44. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. (trademark) A German semiautomatic pistol.
49. Having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other.
51. Southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots.
53. Someone who is regarded as contemptible.
56. A soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
58. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
62. (Greek mythology) The supreme god of ancient mythology.
64. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
68. A unit of pressure.
72. A master's degree in business.
73. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
74. Inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable.
75. A decree that prohibits something.
76. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
77. Old World chats.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. One of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
7. Type genus of the Equidae.
8. Deserving a curse.
9. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
10. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
11. A branch of the Tai languages.
12. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
13. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
14. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
22. (informal) Exceptionally good.
24. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
25. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
26. The longest river of Asia.
28. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
30. United States lawyer famous for his defense of lost causes (1857-1938).
32. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
33. Something twisted and tight and swollen.
35. Having been read.
36. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
38. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
39. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
42. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
45. A large constellation on the equator near Pisces and Aquarius.
48. Cause to lose one's nerve.
50. Any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons.
52. Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness.
54. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
65. In or of the next month after the present.
66. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
67. A quantity of no importance.
69. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
70. Black tropical American cuckoo.
71. Being one hundred more than two hundred.

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