Crossword Puzzle Number 2712 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (Babylonian) The sky god.
4. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
12. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
15. The force of workers available.
16. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals.
17. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
18. An old Scottish coin of little value.
20. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
21. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
22. A drama set to music.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. United States basketball forward (born in 1950).
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A boy or man.
33. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
37. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
41. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
42. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. Extinct dodos and solitaires.
45. Of or relating to the songbirds n.
48. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
49. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
50. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
52. The twelfth month of the civil year.
54. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
63. Avatar of Vishnu.
66. A Hindu prince or king in India.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
71. A palace and fortress built in Granada by the Moslems in the Middle Ages.
74. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
75. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
77. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
78. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
79. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
80. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.

DOWN

1. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
2. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
3. Of someone who has not been married.
4. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
5. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
6. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
7. (followed by `with') Deeply filled or permeated.
8. Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality.
9. On or toward the lee.
10. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
13. A small hard particle.
14. Lean end of the neck.
19. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
23. Loose or flaccid body fat.
24. A genus of Indriidae.
26. Having a gradual increase in width.
28. Possessing material wealth.
30. United States writer of children's books (1904-1991).
32. Jordan's port.
34. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
35. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
36. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
39. The fifth month of the Hindu calendar.
40. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
44. Large American feline resembling a lion.
46. Any plant of the genus Inula.
47. A tributary of the Missouri River.
51. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
53. Being one more than one hundred.
55. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
56. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
57. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. The habitation of wild animals.
62. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
64. A primeval personification of air and breath.
65. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
67. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
68. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
69. Distant in either space or time.
72. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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