Crossword Puzzle Number 7023 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. A hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover.
11. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
15. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
16. A sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf.
17. A Loloish language.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. Mites and ticks.
20. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
21. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
23. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
25. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
26. Toxin secreted by animals (by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)).
28. A genus of Ploceidae.
30. A large fleet.
34. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
37. Having been read.
40. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
42. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
43. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
45. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
46. An ancient city is southern Greece.
48. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
49. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
52. A widely distributed family of plants.
54. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
55. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
60. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
64. (prosody) Of or consisting of spondees.
66. A nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas.
68. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
69. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
72. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
73. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
74. Genus of perennial wildflowers of North American plains and prairies.
76. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
77. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
78. A resident of Montana.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
3. By bad luck.
4. Spaced apart.
5. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
6. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
7. A firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater.
8. Similar or related in quality or character.
9. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
10. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
11. Extremely pleasing.
12. Jordan's port.
13. A human female who does housework.
14. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
22. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
24. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
27. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
29. Fallow deer.
31. Revise or reorganize, esp. for the purpose of updating and improving.
32. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
33. A member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey.
35. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
36. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
38. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
39. A proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys.
41. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
44. Made of fir or pine.
47. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
50. Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962.
51. Either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship.
53. A large and densely populated urban area.
56. (in India and Burma) A member of an armed gang of robbers.
57. North Atlantic sea poacher.
58. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
59. Being one more than one.
61. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
65. Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes.
67. A city of central China.
70. A master's degree in business.
71. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
75. A state in east central United States.

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