Crossword Puzzle Number 1648 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
5. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
11. Toward the mouth or oral region.
15. Relatively deep or strong.
16. Outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921).
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC).
19. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
20. A sign of something about to happen.
21. Exultantly proud and joyful.
23. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
25. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
28. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
30. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
35. Existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual.
38. Too old to be useful.
40. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
43. An informal term for a father.
44. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
45. Any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
51. An accountant certified by the state.
52. A port city in southwestern Iran.
54. Old World woody vines.
56. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
59. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
61. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
65. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
69. Not made with leavening.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture.
75. Jordan's port.
76. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. Of or relating to an oracle.
79. (British) Your grandmother.
80. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
81. A person with the same name as another.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
2. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
3. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
4. A short pithy instructive saying.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
8. Type genus of the Rubiaceae.
9. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
10. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
11. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
12. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
13. In bed.
14. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
24. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
26. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
27. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
29. South American tamarin with a tufted head.
31. That is to say.
32. A blind god.
33. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
34. A city in Indonesia.
36. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
37. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. (computer science) Protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network.
42. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
46. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
48. The eighth month of the Hindu calendar.
50. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. A rational motive for a belief or action.
57. A toroidal shape.
58. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
62. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. The habitation of wild animals.
68. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
74. (informal) Of the highest quality.
78. A state in northwestern North America.

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