Crossword Puzzle Number 2273 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A restricted computer network.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Of or concerning this.
20. Become ground down or deteriorate.
21. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
22. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
25. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
26. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
27. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
30. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
33. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
38. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
39. A quantity of no importance.
40. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
41. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
44. African mahogany trees.
46. Inability to walk.
48. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
49. A local computer network for communication between computers.
50. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
52. A formal written defense of something you believe in strongly.
54. Land received by fee tail v 1.
57. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
58. Slanderous defamation.
62. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
65. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
70. Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect.
71. Follower of Rastafarianism.
74. Affect with wonder.
75. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
76. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
78. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
79. Having finished or arrived at completion.
80. The basic unit of money in Honduras.
81. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.

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1. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
4. Garlic mayonnaise.
5. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
6. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
7. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
8. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
9. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
19. With eagerness.
23. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
28. A resident of Utah.
29. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
34. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
35. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
36. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
42. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
43. Containing or filled with salt.
45. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
47. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
51. Of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax.
53. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
55. Towards the shore from the water.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. (used of eyes) Open and fixed as if in fear or wonder.
60. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
63. Beyond what is natural.
64. Chief port of Yemen.
66. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
67. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
68. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
69. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
72. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
73. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
77. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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