Crossword Puzzle Number 2862 (Medium Grid)

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1. Rounded like an egg.
5. A loss of will power.
12. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
15. Female equine animal.
16. The middle of the chief navigable channel of a waterway that forms the boundary line between states.
17. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
18. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
20. With rapid movements.
22. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
24. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
34. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
38. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
43. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
44. A port city in southwestern Iran.
46. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
47. A projectile that is fired from a gun.
48. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
52. Clothes moths.
55. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
56. A sudden short attack.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
60. The capital of Mali.
64. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
69. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
70. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
74. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
75. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
76. The shape of a bell.
77. An associate degree in applied science.
78. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
79. A group of Penutian languages spoken to the west of the Sacramento river.
80. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.

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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia.
3. A particular environment or walk of life.
4. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
5. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
6. God of wealth and love.
7. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
8. In or of the month preceding the present one.
9. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
10. That is to say.
11. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
12. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
13. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
14. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
21. Type genus of the Percidae.
23. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. (informal) Roused to anger.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
35. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
36. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
37. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
39. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
40. Cause to lose courage.
41. Of or at or relating to an anode.
45. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
49. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
50. The lowest brass wind instrument.
51. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
53. Extremely robust.
54. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
58. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
59. Colony of the United Kingdom located on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain.
61. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
62. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
63. Excessively fat.
65. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
66. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
67. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
68. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
71. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
72. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
73. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.

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