Crossword Puzzle Number 2854 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) Having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles.
12. Inquire about.
15. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
16. Indonesian statesman who seized power from Sukarno in 1967 (born in 1921).
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Lacking excess flesh.
19. Of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. Talk pompously.
24. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. One thousand periods per second.
29. A fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface).
30. A farewell remark.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
37. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
38. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
42. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
43. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
47. (of racket strokes) Made with palm facing direction of stroke.
48. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
49. A set of rules or principles or laws especially written ones.
51. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
52. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
56. A quantity of no importance.
59. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
60. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
63. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
66. The bill in a restaurant.
69. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
70. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
71. Available source of wealth.
72. Term of address for a man.
73. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
74. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
75. A doctor's degree in education.

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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
2. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
3. Jordan's port.
4. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments.
5. A unit of pressure.
6. Of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras.
7. A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.
8. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
9. Small genus of Australian shrubs or trees.
10. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
11. The longest division of geological time.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
23. An informal term for a father.
25. Small genus of tropical African perennial bulbous herbs with deciduous twining stems.
26. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
28. A cigar made with light-colored tobacco.
31. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
32. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
33. A deep bow.
35. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
36. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
39. Congenital absence of an arm or leg.
40. (prefix) Within.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. Produce ankylosis by surgery.
45. (informal) Of the highest quality.
46. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
50. Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft).
53. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
54. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
55. Having the head uncovered.
57. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
58. Lower in esteem.
61. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn.
62. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
64. A town in north central Oklahoma.
65. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
67. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
68. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.

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