Crossword Puzzle Number 6996 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried.
12. The sign language used in the United States.
15. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
16. Using a pronoun or other pro-word instead of repeating a word.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
19. The entire amount of income before any deductions are made.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. By bad luck.
23. A city in the European part of Russia.
24. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
26. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
28. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
30. Of or belonging to an aecium.
33. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
34. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
38. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
39. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
40. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches.
44. Little known Kamarupan languages.
45. Take in solid food.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. A radioactive transuranic element.
50. Produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation.
52. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
55. Of or relating to or characteristic of Semites.
57. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
58. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
59. Proceeding in small stages.
62. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
66. A mask with a filter protects the face an lungs against poisonous gases.
69. Offering fun and gaiety.
72. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
73. A small piece of cloth.
76. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
77. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
78. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
3. A Loloish language.
4. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
5. With ineptitude.
6. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
7. A short amusing opera.
8. A whimsical idea.
9. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle.
10. Elected Vice President and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886).
11. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. The act of scanning.
14. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
22. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
25. Widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A large fleet.
31. A liquid solution that results from elution.
32. Venus's girdle.
35. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
36. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
37. A member of a Hindu people descended from Brahmins and Rajputs who live in Nepal.
41. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
42. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
43. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. A Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream.
47. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
51. Deciduous shrub of North America.
53. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
54. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
56. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
60. Softly bright or radiant.
61. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
63. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
64. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
65. God of death.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. God of love and erotic desire.
70. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
71. Fiddler crabs.
74. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
75. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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