Crossword Puzzle Number 2153 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.
5. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
12. Not divisible by two.
15. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
16. Corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (Southern).
17. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
18. Wearing or provided with clothing.
19. Of or relating to Chios.
20. A grant made by a law court.
22. Heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds.
23. An informal term for a father.
24. A form of Japanese poetry.
25. Light carriage.
27. (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.
30. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
31. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
35. (Irish) The sea personified.
38. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
40. Come into existence.
42. Little known Kamarupan languages.
45. More than enough in size or scope or capacity.
46. Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas.
48. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
50. An accidental happening.
51. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
52. A loose cloak with a hood.
54. An athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball).
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. An associate degree in nursing.
58. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
59. A port city in southwestern Iran.
61. A city in east central Texas.
64. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
67. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. A bachelor's degree in theology.
75. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A shape that sags.
79. Financially ruined.
80. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.

DOWN

1. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
2. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
3. A city of central China.
4. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
5. German mathematician (1804-1851).
6. (Assyrian) Chief god of the Assyrians.
7. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. A port and fashionable resort city on southern Mexico's Pacific coast.
9. Be successful.
10. A state in northwestern North America.
11. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
12. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
13. A dull stupid fatuous person.
14. An informal term for a father.
21. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
26. A doctor's degree in optometry.
28. A sweetish crystalline amino acid involved in the synthesis by the body of cysteine.
29. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
32. First in order of importance.
33. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
34. A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull.
36. Having leaves or leaves as specified.
37. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
39. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
41. Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC).
43. South African term for `boss'.
44. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
47. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
56. A person who captures and holds people or animals.
60. Of or in or relating to the nose.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
65. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
66. Constituting a copy or imitation of something.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
71. A light touch or stroke.
72. (Babylonian) The sky god.
73. Having only superficial plausibility.
76. A person forced to flee from home or country.

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