Crossword Puzzle Number 1272 (Medium Grid)

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1. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
5. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
12. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
15. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
16. Small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope.
17. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
18. A city in northern India.
19. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
20. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
22. Land and buildings together considered as a place of business.
24. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
26. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
27. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
28. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
30. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
31. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
32. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
35. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
40. With eagerness.
42. Lasting through a week.
45. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
46. In truth (often tends to intensify).
47. Like or containing small stick lumps.
51. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
52. A motley assortment of things.
53. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
56. A lawyer who pleads cases in court.
58. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
60. Inability to urinate.
62. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
68. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
71. An official engaged in international negotiations.
72. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
73. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. Deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves.
78. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
79. The month following February and preceding April.
80. One who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear.
81. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.

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1. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
2. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
3. Having lost your job.
4. A priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome.
5. Type genus of the Anatidae.
6. A republic on the western coast of central Africa.
7. Squash bugs.
8. A very small circular shape.
9. Reproduce someone's behavior or looks.
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. A period of time spent sleeping.
12. (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
13. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
14. (music) Composed or performed by a single voice or instrument.
21. Having or involving the use of hands.
23. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
29. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
33. Relating to or characteristic of alps.
34. Of or relating to a dyad or based on two.
36. Of or relating to the kidneys.
37. A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes.
38. An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.
39. Look at with amorous intentions.
41. Bright and pleasant.
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
48. Relating to or near the ulna.
49. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
50. A tart spiciness.
54. (slang) The act of stealing.
55. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.
57. Lace again.
59. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
63. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
64. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
65. Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles.
66. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
67. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
69. The short weak cry of a young bird.
70. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
76. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
77. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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