Crossword Puzzle Number 7897 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
5. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
11. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
15. An Asian river between China and Russia.
16. The thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest.
17. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. Type genus of the Anatidae.
23. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
25. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
27. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. Complacently or inanely foolish.
31. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
35. A region in central Italy.
40. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
41. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
44. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
47. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
49. Elk or moose.
50. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
51. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
52. A city of central China.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. A university in Connecticut.
57. Look at with amorous intentions.
59. Of or pertaining to adnexa.
66. A variety of albatross with black feet.
69. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
73. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
74. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
75. A condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed.
76. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.

DOWN

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. A sign of something about to happen.
3. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
4. Forceful and extreme and rigorous.
5. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
6. Any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum.
7. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
8. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
9. Woolly aphids.
10. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
11. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
12. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
13. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
22. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
29. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture.
32. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
33. Evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers.
34. Involving two dimensions.
36. The brightest star in Virgo.
37. Edible body of any of numerous oysters.
38. Not divisible by two.
42. (game bird) Flesh of quail.
43. The selling of something purchased.
45. (Brit) UK decimal coin worth ten pennies.
46. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
48. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
53. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
54. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
58. Any plant of the genus Erica.
60. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
61. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
62. Being one more than ten.
63. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
64. A kiln for drying hops.
65. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
67. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
68. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
72. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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