Crossword Puzzle Number 3001 (Medium Grid)

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1. An enclosed space.
4. White or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region.
12. An honorary degree in science.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. An accidental happening.
19. A genus of Scolopacidae.
20. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
22. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
24. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
26. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
29. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
30. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A state in midwestern United States.
38. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. Indigo bush.
40. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
42. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
44. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. Late time of life.
50. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
52. The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states.
55. An associate degree in applied science.
56. A minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services.
58. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
64. A mournful poem.
65. (Roman mythology) A princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage.
67. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
68. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
71. Having a command of or composed in many languages.
73. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
76. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
77. An affirmative.
78. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters.
79. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.

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1. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
4. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
5. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
6. A harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog).
7. A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.
8. Similar or related in quality or character.
9. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
10. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
11. Any of several seeds that yield oil.
12. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
13. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
14. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
21. Jordan's port.
23. A leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528).
25. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
27. Long and slender with a very small internal diameter.
28. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
31. A gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier.
32. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
33. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
35. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
37. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
41. In an unnatural eery manner.
43. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
47. A kind of malacostracan crustacean.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status.
51. United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000).
53. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
54. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
57. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
59. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.
61. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
62. The address where a person lives.
63. Be or do something to a greater degree.
66. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
69. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
70. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
72. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
74. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
75. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.

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