Crossword Puzzle Number 16 (Medium Grid)

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1. Beat severely with a whip or rod.
5. Subtly skillful handling of a situation.
12. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
15. Mother goddess.
16. In accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. Unable to move or resist motion.
20. A state in the western United States.
22. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
24. The birds of a particular region or period.
26. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
29. A decree that prohibits something.
30. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
33. A variety of leaf bug.
34. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
38. Capital and largest city of Italy.
39. Type genus of the Majidae.
40. A person who possesses great material wealth.
41. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
46. Wild and domestic cattle.
47. Synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming.
49. Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous.
51. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
54. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
55. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
60. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
61. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
63. Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness.
71. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
72. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
74. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
75. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
76. Mountain ebony, orchid tree.
78. An enclosed space.
79. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
80. The interior curve of an arch.
81. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.

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1. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
2. A Russian river.
3. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting.
4. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
5. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
6. That is to say.
7. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
8. Chipmunks of western America and Asia.
9. Speaking a Slavic language.
10. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
11. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
13. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
14. Offering fun and gaiety.
19. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
21. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
23. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
27. Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
28. (Hindu mythology) The most important of the princes in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God.
31. English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913).
32. Give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role.
35. An established custom.
36. Called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation.
37. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Perceive sound.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. A friendly nation.
48. German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia (1868-1934).
50. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
56. Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person.
57. A city in central Illinois on the Illinois River.
59. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
62. Lower in esteem.
64. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
65. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
66. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
67. An unofficial association of people or groups.
68. South African term for `boss'.
69. Rounded like an egg.
70. A large indefinite number.
73. Temporary military shelter.
77. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.

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