Crossword Puzzle Number 1623 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. The property of excessive fatness.
12. A young woman making her debut into society.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. North American rat snakes.
20. The sacred city of Lamaism.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
26. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
28. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
29. The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated.
32. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
36. Speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation.
38. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
39. The Judeo-Christian God.
43. Gone by.
45. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
47. Large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind.
48. A desert in southern Israel.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
53. A glass for beer.
55. A medium for oil-paints.
58. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
59. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
63. Long-established Hungarian breed of tall light-footed but sturdy white dog.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
69. Small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America.
72. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
73. Not in good physical or mental health.
74. Relating to or characteristic of the state or people of Alaska.
75. A primeval personification of air and breath.
76. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
77. An Asian country under the control of China.
78. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
6. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
7. Thin and paperlike.
8. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
9. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
10. Being one more than one.
11. A deep bow.
12. Made of fir or pine.
13. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
14. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
21. A portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking.
23. Unable to see.
25. (informal) Exceptionally good.
27. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
30. A final climactic stage.
31. (Russian) Small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried.
33. The basic unit of money in Zaire.
34. (Sumerian) God of the air and king of the Sumerian gods.
35. The form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation.
37. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
42. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
44. In a foreign country.
46. A flexible container with a single opening.
49. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
51. A mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir.
54. An azure blue semiprecious stone.
56. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
57. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
60. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
61. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
62. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
64. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
65. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
66. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
67. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
70. The seventh and last day of the week.
71. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.

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