Crossword Puzzle Number 2242 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
4. The highest waterfall in Canada.
12. The cause or intention underlying an action or situation esp in the phrase "the whys and wherefores".
15. Of southern Europe.
16. The quality of being alien.
17. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
18. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
19. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
22. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
24. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
25. A state in the western United States.
26. An informal term for a father.
28. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
31. (of tempo) Moderately slow n.
35. A Loloish language.
38. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
39. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
41. Make a loud, roaring sound, as of a car engine, while moving.
43. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
47. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
48. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
52. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
54. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
55. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
56. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
57. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
59. Seeds for birds.
62. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
63. By bad luck.
65. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables.
71. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
73. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
75. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
76. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
78. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
79. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
80. An impressive country house (or castle) in France.
81. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).

DOWN

1. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
2. One thousandth of a second.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659).
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. Type genus of the Anatidae.
9. Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula.
10. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
11. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
12. Intense anger (usually on an epic scale).
13. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
14. Not only so, but.
21. A Chadic language spoke south of Lake Chad.
23. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
27. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
32. The capital of the Bahamas.
33. Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. Herb native to southern Europe.
37. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
40. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
42. Speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation.
44. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
45. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
46. Fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses.
49. Evergreen trees and shrubs.
50. Give equal rights to.
51. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
53. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
58. Pungent fleshy edible root.
60. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
61. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
64. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
66. (informal) Very tired.
67. An elaborate song for solo voice.
68. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
69. The basic unit of money on Malta.
70. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
72. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.

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