Crossword Puzzle Number 7782 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
4. The worship of devils (especially Satan).
12. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
15. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
16. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. Used of a single unit or thing.
19. Genus of perennial wildflowers of North American plains and prairies.
20. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
21. Gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation.
23. Greek mythology.
25. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
26. An Asian river.
30. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
34. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
40. Jordan's port.
42. Any of various plants of the family Cruciferae having edible pungent-tasting leaves.
43. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
44. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
45. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
46. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
48. Genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores.
52. Related on the mother's side.
55. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
57. Made tough by habitual exposure.
61. An amino acid containing sulfur that is found in most proteins.
64. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
65. Disabled in the feet or legs.
66. Goddess of war.
69. (Jewish folklore) An artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means.
70. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
71. Any plant of the genus Nigella.
73. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
74. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
75. A studio especially for an artist or designer.
76. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).

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1. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
2. The fifth of the seven canonical hours.
3. A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence.
4. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
5. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
6. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
7. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
8. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
9. A person of subnormal intelligence.
10. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
11. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
12. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
22. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
24. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
29. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
31. Staying temporarily.
32. An island of central Hawaii.
33. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
35. A city in northeastern Ohio.
36. English monk and scholar (672-735).
37. French choreographer and ballet dancer (born in Russia) (1895-1979).
38. Of or relating to or involving an area.
39. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
41. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
47. New Guinea echidnas.
49. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
50. Sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative.
51. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
53. Disclosing information or giving evidence about another.
54. Come out into view, as from concealment.
56. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
58. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
59. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
60. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
62. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
63. Being of delicate or slender build.
67. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
68. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
72. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).

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