Crossword Puzzle Number 695 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
5. Lacking physical strength or vitality.
12. The month following August and preceding October.
15. American novelist (1909-1955).
16. A butcher's knife having a large square blade.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. One of three artisans of the gods.
19. The cry made by sheep.
21. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.
25. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. Arrange or order by classes or categories.
29. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
32. Take in solid food.
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
36. A housing for a radar antenna.
37. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
40. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
42. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
43. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
44. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
45. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
50. A strong emotion.
51. A widely distributed family of plants.
52. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
57. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
60. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
63. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
65. A state in New England.
70. Pearl oysters.
72. Decreasing in amount or intensity.
73. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
74. An employee of a railroad.
76. Of inferior or mixed breed.
77. A local computer network for communication between computers.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

DOWN

1. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
2. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
3. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
4. Language of the people of Cebu in the Philippines.
5. The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale).
6. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
7. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
8. The mints.
9. United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971).
10. An area that includes seats for several people.
11. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
12. Having the qualities of soap (and liable to slip away).
13. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
14. Marked by the reception of pay.
20. An unsuccessful ending.
24. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
26. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
28. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
30. Of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people.
31. Someone whose business is advertising.
34. Chorea in dogs.
35. Read anew.
38. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
46. Wildly disordered.
47. Clean or orderly.
48. A system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year.
49. Small genus of herbs usually included in the genus Origanum.
53. The fourth month of the civil year.
55. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
58. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
59. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).
61. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers.
66. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
67. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
68. An onerous or difficult concern.
69. A city in northern India.
71. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
75. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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