Crossword Puzzle Number 1053 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
5. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
11. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
15. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
16. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
17. An account describing incidents or events.
18. Sealed in a can or jar.
19. An associate degree in nursing.
20. Deer grass.
21. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
22. A Loloish language.
24. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
25. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
27. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. Excellent and delightful in all respects.
38. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
41. Intelligence derived from non-communications electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources).
42. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
43. Fallow deer.
44. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
46. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
47. Channel into a new direction.
49. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
52. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
56. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
58. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
60. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
62. Music performed for dancing the polka.
66. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
71. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
74. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. A small piece of cloth.
79. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
80. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
81. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A blind god.
2. English essayist (1775-1834).
3. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
4. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. Before noon.
7. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
10. Gained or acquired.
11. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
12. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
13. An elaborate song for solo voice.
14. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
23. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
26. An unofficial association of people or groups.
28. Dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill.
29. Minor or subordinate.
31. Of or relating to or characteristic of wolves n.
33. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
35. Of a pale purple color.
36. The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
37. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
39. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
40. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
45. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
48. Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659).
50. Beside one another in a row or rank.
51. Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow.
53. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
57. The use of dye to change the color of something permanently.
59. The month following March and preceding May.
61. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
63. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
67. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
68. Especially one side of a leaf.
69. Having or displaying warmth or affection.
70. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
72. A human limb.
73. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
76. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
77. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
78. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.

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