Crossword Puzzle Number 6936 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A partially opened flower.
4. Marked by great carelessness.
12. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
17. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
18. Covered with paving material.
20. Music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano).
22. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
23. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
25. On, to, or at the top.
28. Any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes.
30. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
34. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
35. Not causing or capable of causing harm.
38. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
42. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
43. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
44. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
45. Located inward.
47. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
51. Stalk of a moss capsule.
52. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
53. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
54. A form of address for a man.
55. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
58. An appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food.
61. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
65. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
67. Feed excessively.
69. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
70. Small genus of herbs usually included in the genus Origanum.
73. A master's degree in business.
74. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
75. Without forethought or plan.
76. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
77. The fatty flesh of eel.
78. A musical composition in several movements.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
8. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
9. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
10. A downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles.
11. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
12. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
13. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
14. A way of access consisting of a set of steps.
19. A woman of refinement.
21. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
24. The square of a body of any size of type.
26. The content of cognition.
27. An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate.
29. Imprudently incurring risk.
31. Someone who earn wages in return for their labor.
32. Small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward.
33. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
36. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
37. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
39. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
48. A parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract.
49. Aroused or activated.
50. A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing.
56. Whale lice.
57. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
59. An expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb.
60. Physically weak.
62. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
68. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
71. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
72. Be obliged to pay or repay.

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