Crossword Puzzle Number 1379 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
5. Small genus of Eurasian herbs.
11. Little known Kamarupan languages.
15. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
16. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
17. Not widely known.
18. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
19. 1 species.
20. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
21. (superlative of `near' or `nigh') Most near.
23. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
25. Short and fat.
27. (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.
28. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
31. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
36. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
38. An informal term for a father.
41. `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially Roman or Orthodox Catholic).
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
46. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
49. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
51. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
53. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
54. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
57. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
59. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
63. A genus of Indriidae.
66. Of or being the lowest female voice.
69. A branch of the Tai languages.
70. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
71. A confidential or secret meeting.
75. A master's degree in business.
76. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
77. A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.
78. Tag the base runner to get him out.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
80. Used of conduct.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
2. Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted.
3. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A person who directs and manages an organization.
5. A province in north-central China.
6. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
7. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
10. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
11. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
12. Of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture.
13. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
14. A large quantity of written matter.
22. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
24. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
26. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
29. Shade within clear boundaries.
30. A blind god.
32. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
33. The content of cognition.
34. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
35. (combining form) Indicating radiation or radioactivity.
37. Any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs.
39. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
40. (informal) Exceptionally good.
42. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
48. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
50. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
52. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
55. A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas.
56. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
58. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
60. A genus of Lamnidae.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Jordan's port.
64. Characteristic of false pride.
65. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
67. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
68. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting.
72. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
73. A small lump or protuberance.
74. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.

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