Crossword Puzzle Number 1246 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
4. Capable of having having clear evidence of eliminated without trace.
12. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
20. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
21. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
23. An herb with milky juice.
25. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
26. English essayist (1775-1834).
27. Relating to or near the radius.
34. The female reproductive cell.
35. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
37. A very wealthy or powerful businessman.
38. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
40. Posing no difficulty.
42. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
43. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
45. (Irish) The sea personified.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
62. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
64. Feed excessively.
66. God of fire.
67. Type genus of the Upupidae.
70. A master's degree in business.
71. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
72. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
74. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
75. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
76. An island in Antigua and Barbuda.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
2. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
3. A low heavy horsecart without sides.
4. Submerged freshwater perennials.
5. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
6. (informal) Of the highest quality.
7. An area that includes seats for several people.
8. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
9. Sealed vessel where water is converted to steam.
10. A surrounding or nearby region.
11. Excessive desire to eat.
12. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
22. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
24. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
28. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
29. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
30. The cry made by sheep.
31. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
32. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
33. The rattling noise produced when snoring.
36. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
39. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
41. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
50. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
51. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
53. Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place).
54. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
55. Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender down-curving bill.
56. Chromatic purity.
57. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
59. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
65. Characteristic of false pride.
68. Liquid excretory product.
69. Goddess of fate.
73. A state in north central United States.

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