Crossword Puzzle Number 917 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. Containing or expressing accusation.
12. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
15. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
16. One who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people.
17. Fiddler crabs.
18. A slight amount or degree of difference.
19. Physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity.
20. A republic in central Europe.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. Coffee trees.
26. A document listing the alternatives that is used in voting.
29. A state in New England.
31. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
32. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
35. Held in slavery.
39. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
41. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
42. Two items of the same kind.
44. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
45. The fatty flesh of eel.
48. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
49. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia.
52. With eagerness.
54. A negatively charged atom.
56. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
57. Being seven more than ninety.
59. Obvious and dull.
62. A major god.
64. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
69. In a state of sleep.
73. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
74. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
76. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
77. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
78. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
79. The residue that remains when something is burned.

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1. (prefix) Outside or outer.
2. Gather, as of as crops.
3. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. The third month of the civil year.
6. The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music.
7. Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.
8. Rectangular paving stone with curved top.
9. A strong emotion.
10. Produced or delivered by the voice.
11. Lend dignity or honor to.
12. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist.
13. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
14. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
22. A telegram sent abroad.
25. A volcano in south central Guatemala.
27. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
28. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
30. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
33. As of a conifer.
34. The monovalent organic group C3H7- obtained from propane.
36. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
37. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
38. Two items of the same kind.
40. Great brightness.
43. An associate degree in nursing.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
47. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
50. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
51. Release from a clasp.
53. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
55. Type genus of the Viperidae.
58. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
60. A city in northern India.
61. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
63. Be teeming, be abuzz.
65. Fallow deer.
66. Type genus of the Anatidae.
67. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
70. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
71. A local computer network for communication between computers.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Being nine more than ninety.

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