Crossword Puzzle Number 2632 (Medium Grid)

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1. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. A Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
12. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Small genus of chiefly American herbs.
17. Fiddler crabs.
18. Situated away from an area's coast or border.
20. Held back.
21. Range of what one can know or understand.
22. Playful in an appealingly bold way.
24. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
26. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
27. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
30. Absence of one of both testes.
31. Silklike nylon fabric.
35. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
38. Beneath the surface of the sea.
43. A primeval personification of air and breath.
44. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
45. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
51. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
54. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
55. Love intensely.
58. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
60. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
64. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
68. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
71. Either extremity of something that has length.
72. A Bantu language spoken in southern Somalia.
75. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
76. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
77. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
78. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.

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1. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
2. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
3. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. Of or relating to Libya or its people.
8. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
9. The part of the stamen that contains pollen.
10. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
13. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
14. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
19. Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall.
23. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
25. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
28. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
29. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
32. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
36. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
37. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
39. Short and fat.
40. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
41. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
42. The cry made by sheep.
47. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
50. A British doctorate.
52. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
53. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
56. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
57. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
59. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
61. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
62. (British) A simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice.
63. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
65. The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.
66. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
67. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
69. Being one more than one.
70. (informal) Roused to anger.
73. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
74. One million periods per second.

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