Crossword Puzzle Number 1470 (Medium Grid)

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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. Parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car.
12. A person active in party politics.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Capable of being treated by surgical operation.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. Small plains antelope of southeastern Africa.
20. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
21. The address where a person lives.
23. An informal term for a father.
25. A state in New England.
26. A state in east central United States.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
36. 16 ounces.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. By accident.
44. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
45. Used in combination to denote the middle.
47. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
48. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
49. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
50. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
54. A port city in southwestern Iran.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
57. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
60. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
63. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
65. The profession of a teacher.
69. A genus of Ploceidae.
72. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
73. Water frozen in the solid state.
74. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
77. Step on it.
78. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
79. Excessive size.
80. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.

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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
4. Affected manners intended to impress others.
5. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
6. Having a tone of a reed instrument.
7. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
8. A bar of sand.
9. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
10. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
11. The basic unit of money in Albania.
12. Music performed for dancing the polka.
13. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
14. A genus of Lamnidae.
22. The event of dying or departure from life.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
30. Suggestive of the supernatural.
31. The British system of withholding tax.
32. One of the 4-year intervals between Olympic Games.
34. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
35. An advanced law degree.
37. Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables.
38. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
39. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
46. 1/10 gram.
51. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
52. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables.
53. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
55. Before noon.
58. The unlimited 3-dimensional expanse in which everything is located.
59. Having help.
61. A city in north-central India.
62. A woman of refinement.
64. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
66. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
67. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
68. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
76. A state in midwestern United States.

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