Crossword Puzzle Number 7646 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
4. United States economist (born in the Netherlands) (1910-1985).
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
16. Something that allows access (entry or exit).
17. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
18. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
19. Someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions.
20. Jordan's port.
22. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
24. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
25. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
26. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
28. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
31. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
33. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. Military supplies.
37. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. Stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug.
43. A decree that prohibits something.
45. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
47. A newspaper or official journal.
51. Used of a single unit or thing.
52. An intuitive awareness.
53. Regional and archaic.
54. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
56. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
58. Tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers.
61. Extent downward or backward or inward.
64. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
67. An ancient branch of the Semitic languages.
69. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
70. A small number or amount.
71. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
73. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
74. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.
77. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
78. Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs.
79. Tropical starchy tuberous root.

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1. Two items of the same kind.
2. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
3. Short and fat.
4. Range of what one can know or understand.
5. Divination by the letters of a name.
6. A member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario.
7. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
8. A member of a North American Indian people of the Gila river valley in Arizona.
9. One or some or every or all without specification.
10. A state in southeastern United States.
11. A man who serves as a sailor.
12. A port city in southwestern Iran.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
30. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
32. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
35. A rugged box (usually made of wood).
36. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
38. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
39. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
42. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
44. (nautical) Of an anchor.
46. (classical mythology) A hero noted for his strength.
48. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
49. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
50. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
55. Submerged freshwater perennials.
57. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
59. Resin of the kauri trees of N Zealand.
60. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
62. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
63. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
65. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
66. In or of the present month.
68. In the Roman calendar.
72. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
76. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).

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