Crossword Puzzle Number 2217 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A state of southwestern India.
4. A handheld collapsible source of shade.
11. An informal term for a father.
15. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
16. Give a promotion to.
17. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
19. A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy.
21. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
23. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
25. An associate degree in applied science.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
30. A white trivalent metallic element.
33. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
37. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
43. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
44. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
49. A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad.
50. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
52. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
53. Small dull-colored moth with chewing mouthparts.
54. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
56. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
57. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
60. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
63. French artist who immigrated to the United States.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. Biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions.
76. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. A kind of person.
78. Having a rasping or grating sound.
79. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
80. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
81. Seven performers or singers who perform together.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
2. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
3. Jordan's port.
4. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. Pay back.
7. Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n 1.
8. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
9. Of or relating to near the ear.
10. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
11. Seed of a pea plant.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. Type genus of the Anatidae.
20. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
24. A state in midwestern United States.
27. 1/10 gram.
29. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
31. A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England.
32. Not only so, but.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A stock or supply of foods.
36. Italian Benedictine monk who was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.
38. A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid).
39. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
40. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
41. Any competition.
42. A drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes.
45. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something.
46. Type genus of the Majidae.
51. A fee charged for the use of a wharf.
55. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
58. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
59. The vital principle or animating force within living things.
62. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
64. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
65. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
66. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
67. Female equine animal.
68. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
69. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
70. Closely confined.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. God of love and erotic desire.
75. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.

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