Crossword Puzzle Number 2129 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. A feeling of craving something.
12. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities.
17. Take in solid food.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
20. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
22. A fraudulent business scheme.
24. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
26. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
27. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
30. A cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas.
32. Glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together.
36. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
37. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. The muscular back part of the shank.
45. Plants closely allied to the genera Satureja and Calamintha.
47. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
51. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
53. Of a particle or body or system.
55. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
57. A tributary of the Missouri River.
58. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
60. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
61. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
69. The cry made by sheep.
70. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
73. An edict of the Russian tsar.
74. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
75. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers.
77. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
78. A young woman making her debut into society.
79. A great raja.
80. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.

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. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
6. Antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach.
7. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
8. A cooperative unit.
9. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
10. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. A tributary of the Rio Grande.
13. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
14. A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
21. Highly excited.
23. God of justice.
25. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
29. The capital of Turkey.
31. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
33. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
34. Covered with paving material.
35. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
39. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
40. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
41. Goddess of war.
42. A strong emotion.
43. English monk and scholar (672-735).
46. A building used to house military personnel v 1.
48. (sports) With hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level.
50. Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth.
52. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
54. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
62. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
63. Young sheep.
64. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
65. Type genus of the Majidae.
66. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
67. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
68. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
71. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
72. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
76. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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