Crossword Puzzle Number 1354 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. The wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right.
11. Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials.
17. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
18. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
20. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
21. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
22. City in central Iran.
26. Large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood.
28. Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet.
31. The present time or age.
32. Entice to do.
36. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
37. Widely known and esteemed.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
41. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
43. All the plant life in a particular region.
45. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
47. Of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions.
49. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
51. Raise to a higher energy level.
52. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
53. 16 ounces.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
57. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
62. A large quantity of written matter.
66. Having a woven pattern.
69. A coming to an end of a contract period.
71. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
73. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
74. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
75. Make weak.
77. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
78. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
79. (of market animals) Made ready for market.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. By bad luck.
3. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
4. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
5. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
6. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
7. Publicly announced.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. (of meat) Full of sinews.
10. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
11. The face or front of a building.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood.
14. Bound or secured closely.
19. Slightly wet.
23. Not static or stable.
24. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
25. Minute aquatic multicellular organisms having a ciliated wheel-like organ for feeding and locomotion.
27. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
29. An encroachment or intrusion.
30. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
33. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
34. A local church community.
35. An investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods.
40. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
42. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
44. Any stoppage attributable to unusual activity.
46. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
48. United States poet (1884-1933).
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. Smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears.
59. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
60. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
61. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
63. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
64. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
65. Tropical Asian starlings.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. God of love and erotic desire.
70. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
72. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
76. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.

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