Crossword Puzzle Number 7240 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
4. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
12. A person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war.
15. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
16. (biology) Restricted to a particular condition of life.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
19. Filled with a great quantity.
20. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
22. An imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead.
24. Being one more than fifty.
25. In a competent capable manner.
26. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
27. Genus of European subshrubs or herbs having pink or purple or yellow solitary or clustered flowers.
29. Any of various units of capacity.
30. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
33. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
37. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
39. The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
43. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
44. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
47. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
51. A port in southern Sweden.
54. Remaining after all deductions.
56. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
58. The capital and largest city of Lithuania.
60. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
64. The ohmic resistance of a conductor.
68. A native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.
71. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
72. In bed.
73. Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous.
76. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
77. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
78. A young unmarried woman.
79. The month following February and preceding April.

DOWN

1. A proud stiff pompous gait.
2. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
3. The leader of an Arab village or family.
4. A republic in northwestern South America.
5. (anatomy) Opposite to or away from the mouth.
6. Of a surface.
7. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
8. Lasting through all time.
9. Goods carried by a large vehicle.
10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
11. A colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent.
12. (usually in the plural) A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.
13. Using speech rather than writing.
14. Made of or covered with wax.
21. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
23. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
28. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
31. The wool of the vicuna.
32. Reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen.
34. Jordan's port.
35. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
36. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
38. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
40. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
41. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
42. Being nine more than ninety.
45. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
46. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
50. A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man.
52. The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan.
53. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
55. A transuranic element.
57. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
59. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704).
61. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
62. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
63. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
65. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
66. Offering fun and gaiety.
67. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
69. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
70. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
74. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
75. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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