Crossword Puzzle Number 7498 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An enclosed space.
4. Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975).
12. The sign language used in the United States.
15. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
16. Markedly different from an accepted norm.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. How long something has existed.
19. (Greek mythology) The blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother.
20. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
21. A midday meal.
24. Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.
25. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
28. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
29. The month following April and preceding June.
30. Capital of modern Macedonia.
31. A master's degree in library science.
36. A Loloish language.
40. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
43. Appeal or request earnestly.
44. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
50. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
51. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
53. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. Speaking a Slavic language.
59. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
68. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
73. A young woman making her debut into society.
74. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
75. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
76. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
77. A person whose head is bald.
78. Used of a single unit or thing.

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1. The skin that covers the top of the head.
2. Present reasons and arguments.
3. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
4. United States athlete who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon (born in 1930).
5. The state of existing and being localized in space.
6. A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.
7. A particular environment or walk of life.
8. A form of address for a married woman.
9. A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin).
10. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
11. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
12. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
13. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
14. The sound of laughing.
22. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
23. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
26. Nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter.
27. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
32. Being four more than sixty.
33. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
34. A person forced to flee from home or country.
35. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
39. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
41. Being such by origin.
42. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A state in northwestern North America.
48. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.
52. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
54. Male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon.
57. A workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding).
58. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
60. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
61. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
63. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
64. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
66. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. Characteristic of a mob.
70. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
71. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.

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