Crossword Puzzle Number 1447 (Medium Grid)

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1. Inquire about.
4. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
12. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. Oriental moth that produces brownish silk.
20. A Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917).
21. Type genus of the Anatidae.
23. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. An aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades).
29. Any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
32. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
35. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
40. Memorization by repetition.
45. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
47. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
48. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
49. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
50. Large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes.
54. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
56. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
60. Using the voice.
62. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
66. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
68. A large indefinite number.
71. A branch of the Tai languages.
72. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
74. A group of southern Bantu languages.
76. A master's degree in business.
77. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
78. Experiencing or manifesting pleasure.
80. Tag the base runner to get him out.
81. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
82. A port city in southern Wales on an inlet of the Bristol Channel.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. The act of scanning.
3. God of love and erotic desire.
4. A sheath worn to protect a finger.
5. Ending in a sharp point.
6. Brought back to original condition.
7. Baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables.
8. Resembling a serpent in form.
9. A state of northeastern India.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. Fallow deer.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
14. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
22. Low tree ferns with large fronds.
24. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
27. A city in the European part of Russia.
28. Being three more than fifty.
30. An informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge.
31. Being on the outside or further from a center.
33. Of a pale purple color.
34. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
37. Half the width of an em.
39. Cheese containing a blue mold.
41. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
44. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
46. Adorned by inlays.
51. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
53. By bad luck.
55. Normal relaxed breathing.
58. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
59. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
61. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
63. A genus of Lamnidae.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Jordan's port.
67. Female equine animal.
69. A persistently annoying person.
70. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
73. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
75. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
79. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.

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