Crossword Puzzle Number 2607 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle).
12. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
17. A human limb.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. Earnest or urgent request.
20. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
21. A person who owns or operates a ranch.
23. A form of address for a married woman.
25. Before noon.
26. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Common black European thrush.
32. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
34. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
38. A city in northwestern Syria.
39. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
40. A Loloish language.
41. A musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms.
43. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
46. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
48. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. Not of long duration.
52. A genus of Indriidae.
53. A human limb.
56. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
59. A Loloish language.
60. A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
63. Seed again or anew.
65. United States actor (born in Hungary) noted for playing sinister roles (1904-1964).
66. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
68. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
71. Thin-shelled freshwater mussels.
74. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
75. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
78. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
79. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
80. Of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. The sixth month of the civil year.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
4. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
5. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
6. To go back over again, as of a route or steps.
7. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
8. A deficiency of red blood cells.
9. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
10. A book of the New Testament.
11. A negative.
12. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
13. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
14. A city in northern India.
22. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
24. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
27. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
30. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
31. Re-establish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.
33. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
35. Jordan's port.
36. Dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere.
37. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried.
42. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
44. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
45. The amount a salary is increased.
49. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
50. Sharp piercing cry.
54. A native of ancient Troy.
55. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
57. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
58. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.
61. Having or characterized or distinguished by tone or a specific tone.
62. Become ground down or deteriorate.
64. Indigo bush.
67. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
69. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
70. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
72. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
73. An enclosed space.
76. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
77. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.

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