Crossword Puzzle Number 2762 (Medium Grid)

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1. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
5. The academic world.
12. Inquire about.
15. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
16. The spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
19. Perceptible especially by the eye.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. Of great mass.
23. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
25. Any of a group of storm gods.
27. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
29. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
31. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
32. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
36. A bar of sand.
39. Type genus of the Bryaceae.
40. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
41. An associate degree in nursing.
44. Evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries.
47. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
48. (Norse mythology) Trickster.
49. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River.
51. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
52. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
56. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
64. An appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food.
66. Feed excessively.
69. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
71. A master's degree in business.
72. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
73. Annual and biennial herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia.
75. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
76. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
77. An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Work doggedly or persistently.
2. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
3. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
4. Dyed with henna.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. A city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia).
7. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
8. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
9. Preserve a dead body.
10. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
11. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
24. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
26. The bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids.
28. Archaic name for England or Great Britain.
30. Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936).
33. City in Sudan.
34. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
35. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
37. A sheltered and secluded place.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
43. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
45. Of or relating to Libya or its people.
46. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
50. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
53. The striking of one body against another.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. Being one more than one hundred.
57. A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man.
58. Big-eyed scad.
59. Thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game.
60. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
61. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
65. Advanced in years.
67. Characteristic of false pride.
68. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
70. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
74. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.

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