Crossword Puzzle Number 2072 (Medium Grid)

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1. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
4. Cut or impressed into a surface.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
16. In an adroit manner.
17. A boy or man.
18. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
20. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
21. Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain.
23. Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss.
26. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
27. Someone whose business is advertising.
28. Harmed or injured or spoiled.
31. In operation or operational.
34. Extremely robust.
35. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
39. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
41. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
43. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
44. Containing or filled with salt.
45. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
47. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
49. Relating to abdominal delivery.
52. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
53. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
54. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
56. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
58. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
63. A game invented by American indians.
70. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
71. (criminal law) A pleading describing some wrong or offense.
74. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
75. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
77. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
78. Having leadership guidance.
79. A resident of Idaho.
80. An informal term for a father.

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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. A cylindrical tower used for storing silage.
3. A city in east central Texas.
4. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
5. The capital and largest city of Chad.
6. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
7. A partly sheltered anchorage.
8. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
9. A state in New England.
10. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
11. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
12. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
13. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
14. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
19. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana or its people or language.
24. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
25. An associate degree in applied science.
29. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
30. (Old Testament) The Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus.
32. Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell.
33. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
36. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
40. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor.
46. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
48. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
50. Earlier a god.
51. The square of a body of any size of type.
55. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
59. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
60. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
64. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
65. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
66. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. In bed.
69. Offering fun and gaiety.
72. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
73. A state of southwestern India.
76. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.

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