Crossword Puzzle Number 1153 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Little known Kamarupan languages.
5. Having hair on the cheeks and chin.
12. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
15. Not widely known.
16. Mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus.
17. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
18. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
19. The mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1.
20. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
22. The cry made by sheep.
24. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
27. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
28. A state in New England.
29. A platform at the head of a foremast.
33. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
36. Occurring at the beginning.
38. (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.
40. Undergo necrosis.
41. Small genus of Asian trees or shrubs.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
46. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
47. Support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete.
49. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
51. A strong emotion.
52. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
56. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
58. Before noon.
62. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
64. A member of an ancient people living east of Babylonia as early as 4000 BC.
68. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
74. Characteristic of or relating to winter.
75. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
76. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
77. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
78. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.

DOWN

1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
4. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
5. A vigorous blow.
6. Color purple.
7. Lower in esteem.
8. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line.
9. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
12. A chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and nontropical forms and in both children and adults.
13. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
14. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
21. Feelings of excessive pride.
23. The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
25. Anthropologist and linguist.
26. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
30. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
31. To an ample degree or in an ample manner.
32. A kiln for drying hops.
34. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
35. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
37. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
39. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
42. Water frozen in the solid state.
43. The capital of Bahrain.
48. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
53. An informal term for a father.
54. The thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest.
55. A state in northwestern North America.
57. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
59. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
60. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
65. In the Roman calendar.
66. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
67. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
69. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
70. A passage with access only at one end.
71. A benevolent aspect of Devi.

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