Crossword Puzzle Number 717 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An awkward stupid person.
4. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
11. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
15. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
16. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
17. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
21. A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis).
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
29. A hard gary-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite.
31. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
35. Being in competition.
38. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
40. A local computer network for communication between computers.
41. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
42. COmmon Business Oriented Language.
45. Become taut or tauter.
47. Tropical African and Indian herbs.
49. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
50. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
52. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
53. A variety of mandarin orange.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. Report or maintain.
58. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
59. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
61. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
67. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
68. An athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination.
71. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
72. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
73. European annual grown for forage.
74. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
75. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
76. Parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates.
77. 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. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
3. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
4. One thousandth of a second.
5. Traveling on horseback.
6. Cause annoyance in.
7. Black tropical American cuckoo.
8. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
9. Having the color of a canary.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
14. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
20. By bad luck.
22. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
26. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
28. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
30. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
32. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
33. A body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral.
34. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
36. Extravagant self-praise.
37. A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea.
39. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
43. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
44. A deep bow.
46. A person with the same name as another.
48. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
51. The largest city in Pakistan.
54. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
55. A monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal.
60. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
62. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
63. Informal terms for a mother.
64. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
65. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
66. God of love and erotic desire.
69. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
70. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.

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