Crossword Puzzle Number 1156 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
4. Realize beforehand.
11. Showing your contempt by derision.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Make sharp or sharper.
17. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. An extended area of land.
21. Adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices.
22. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
24. Of or related to a musical scale.
26. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
27. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. Earlier a god.
30. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
38. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
39. Flesh of any of various freshwater fishes of the families Centrarchidae of North America or Cyprinidae of Europe.
40. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
42. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
44. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
45. Civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army.
48. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
50. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
51. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
52. Marked or decorated with stripes.
53. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
55. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
57. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
58. The fatty flesh of eel.
59. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
61. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
63. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
68. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
71. A large number of things or people considered together.
72. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
74. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
77. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
78. Be obedient to.
79. The dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
2. A drama set to music.
3. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
4. A federally chartered savings bank.
5. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
6. Common house rats.
7. A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind.
8. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
9. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
10. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
11. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
12. The twelfth month of the civil year.
13. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
14. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
19. Attribute to a source or cause.
23. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
25. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
28. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
31. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
32. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
33. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
35. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
36. The visual percept of a region.
37. A place where planes take off and land.
41. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
43. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
46. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
47. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
49. Remove offensive capability from.
54. (of a ship or plane) Sideways drift.
56. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
60. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
62. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
64. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
65. Being the only one.
66. A three-tone Chadic language.
67. Type genus of the Anatidae.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
73. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
75. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
76. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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