Crossword Puzzle Number 1391 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. By bad luck.
5. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
11. Adopted in order to deceive.
15. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
16. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
17. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
18. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
19. Of or relating to apnea.
20. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
21. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
23. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
25. Old World woody vines.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
31. A source of danger.
32. An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice.
35. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
38. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
39. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
46. The language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life.
48. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
50. Of or on or relating to the seashore.
51. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
53. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
54. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
56. Having a dusky brownish gray color.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A soft whitish calcite.
63. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir.
67. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
70. (informal) Of the highest quality.
71. Not genuine.
74. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
75. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
76. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
77. A thrusting blow with a knife.
78. Used of a single unit or thing.
79. Having few if any teeth.
80. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. A bachelor's degree in library science.
2. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
3. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
4. United States film actress (born in 1949).
5. A jar made of glass or plastic.
6. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
7. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
8. American novelist (1909-1955).
9. Marked by skill in deception.
10. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
11. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
12. A royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806.
13. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
14. Dignified manner or conduct.
22. Chief port of Yemen.
24. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
26. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
28. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
30. Of or relating to a septum.
33. An informal conversation.
34. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
36. A Russian river.
37. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
40. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
41. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
42. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
43. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
44. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia.
52. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
55. A cadenced trot executed by the horse in one spot.
57. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
59. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
60. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
62. The sacred city of Lamaism.
64. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
65. Having been read.
66. Any of various small biting flies.
68. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. A French abbot.
72. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
73. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.

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