Crossword Puzzle Number 1662 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
5. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
12. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
15. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits.
16. Having the color of caramel.
17. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
18. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
19. Found pleasant or attractive.
21. An aromatic balsam.
22. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
27. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
29. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
36. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
37. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
39. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
40. Injured by bites or stings.
41. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
43. Register formally.
44. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
47. An inhabitant of Lappland.
49. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
50. 100 seniti equal 1 pa'anga.
51. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
52. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
53. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
55. 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.
57. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
58. Anything that covers or conceals.
61. Deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America.
65. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
66. A flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters.
69. A disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency.
72. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
77. Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect.
78. The habitation of wild animals.
79. In a naive manner.
80. Made of fir or pine.

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1. A short erect tail.
2. A disreputable vagrant.
3. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
4. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. Smallest guenon monkey.
7. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
8. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
9. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
12. A state in the western United States.
13. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
20. The mother of Jesus.
25. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
26. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
28. Being nine more than ninety.
30. Come into existence.
31. The smallest unit of DNA where a mutation can occur.
32. Someone whose business is advertising.
33. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx.
34. Type genus of the Diodontidae.
35. One of two alternative forms of a genes that can have the same locus on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative traits.
38. Become wider.
42. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
45. Having two faces or fronts.
46. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
48. Inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer).
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. A seat with a cushion that is used as a throne by Indian princes.
59. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
60. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
62. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
63. A toilet in England.
64. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
67. A quantity of no importance.
68. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
70. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
71. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
75. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
76. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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