Crossword Puzzle Number 988 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A waterway that feeds water to a mill or water wheel or turbine.
12. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
15. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
16. Of or relating to Albania or its people or language or culture.
17. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
18. Of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England.
20. A form of address for a man.
22. Outer membrane covering an axon.
23. 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).
24. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
25. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
28. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
29. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
31. A large fleet.
33. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention.
36. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
40. (anatomy) Any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
44. A person's brother or sister.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
47. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
52. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
54. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
56. Wild ginger.
58. A short synopsis.
62. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews.
64. Consisting of or made of cedar.
65. Having a margin with rounded scallops.
69. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
73. (of a nuclear reaction) Occurring with evolution or releasing of energy.
75. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
76. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
77. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

DOWN

1. Formerly a gold coin of various European countries.
2. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
3. A member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California.
4. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
5. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
6. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
7. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
8. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
9. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
10. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
11. Half the width of an em.
12. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
14. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
19. Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
21. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
26. Baby bed with high sides.
27. Before noon.
30. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
32. A light touch or stroke.
34. A long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic.
35. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
37. Flexible twig of a willow tree.
38. (Babylonian) God of fire.
39. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
41. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
42. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
43. The cry made by sheep.
48. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
49. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
51. Leave immediately.
53. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
55. Battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.
57. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
59. Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974).
60. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
61. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
63. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
66. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
67. Very dark black.
68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
74. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.

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