Crossword Puzzle Number 1690 (Medium Grid)

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1. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
5. The vocal apparatus of the larynx.
12. A unit of pain intensity.
15. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
16. A town in central Pennsylvania.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. Having a large belly.
20. Adult female chicken.
21. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
23. One thousandth of a second.
25. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
26. In bed.
28. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
36. Liquid excretory product.
38. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
40. (Irish) Ancient Irish god (probably a god of the sun).
41. State in northeastern India.
44. An island of central Hawaii.
45. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
47. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
50. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
51. A member of a Hindu people descended from Brahmins and Rajputs who live in Nepal.
53. A family of Pinaceae.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. An inlaid furniture decoration.
58. Obvious and dull.
62. A book of the New Testament.
66. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
68. A flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin.
70. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
71. Stay clear from.
74. An edict of the Russian tsar.
75. The muscular back part of the shank.
76. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
78. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
79. Chief port of Yemen.
80. (classical mythology) The hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals.
81. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.

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1. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
5. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
6. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
7. A genus of Strigidae.
8. The quality of a person's voice.
9. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
10. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
11. The chance to speak.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. A Russian river.
22. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
27. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
29. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
30. Offspring of a male lion and a female tiger.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
33. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
34. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
35. Of a light grayish-brown color n.
37. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
39. Muslim name for God.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. The player judged to be the most important to the sport.
46. An ancient branch of the Semitic languages.
48. Ribald humor.
49. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
52. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
54. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
56. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. Using the voice.
60. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
61. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
63. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
64. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
65. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
67. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
69. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
72. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
73. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
77. 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.

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