Crossword Puzzle Number 2581 (Medium Grid)

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1. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
4. Type genus of the Odobenidae.
12. Any high mountain.
15. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
16. Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community.
17. Step on it.
18. A person with myopia.
20. A city in east-central France on the Rhone River.
22. Make larger.
24. A state in southeastern United States.
26. A river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River.
27. A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord.
29. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
31. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
35. Of or pertaining to any Shinto sect other than Kokka Shinto.
38. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
41. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
42. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
47. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
49. American novelist (1909-1955).
51. A small cloth bag filled with dried beans.
55. A genus of Malayan tree.
57. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
60. Marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action.
61. Before noon.
63. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
64. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
65. An informal term for a father.
66. Of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips.
73. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
74. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
77. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
78. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
79. Red breed of domestic rabbits.
81. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
82. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
83. A great raja.
84. (Babylonian) The sky god.

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1. A lake in northwestern Russia.
2. United States film actor who played tough heroes (1907-1979).
3. A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
4. Get excessively and undesirably hot.
5. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
6. Look at with amorous intentions.
7. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
8. Very dark black.
9. The present occasion.
10. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
11. A state in north central United States.
12. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
14. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
19. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
21. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
23. A man who serves as a sailor.
25. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. Fiddler crabs.
32. Prolific Flemish baroque painter.
33. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
34. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.
36. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
37. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
48. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
50. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
52. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
53. Perennial herb of North America.
54. (Babylonian) Goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta.
56. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
58. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
67. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by heating limestone.
68. The content of cognition.
69. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
70. A genus of Mustelidae.
71. Chief port of Yemen.
72. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
75. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
76. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
80. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).

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