Crossword Puzzle Number 3132 (Medium Grid)

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1. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
4. One thousand tons.
11. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
15. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
16. Of or relating to epizoa.
17. By bad luck.
18. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
20. A battle in World War II.
21. A city in northern India.
22. Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain.
24. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
25. Metal shackles.
26. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
28. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
30. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
31. An island of central Hawaii.
35. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
40. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. The longest division of geological time.
44. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
45. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
48. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
49. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
50. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
52. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
53. Half the width of an em.
58. A sudden desire.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
65. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
69. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
71. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
72. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
75. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
76. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
77. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
78. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

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1. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
2. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
3. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
4. A longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it.
5. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
6. Of a pale purple color.
7. A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures.
8. An artifact designed to be played with.
9. Porridge made of rolled oats.
10. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
11. The cry made by sheep.
12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
13. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
14. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
19. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. (Scottish) A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains).
29. Showing fear and lack of confidence.
32. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
33. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
34. A large fleet.
36. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
37. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
38. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
39. A yellow quartz.
41. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
46. Shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers.
47. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
51. Of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck.
54. The basic unit of money in Angola.
55. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
56. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
57. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
59. A language group of the Hokan family.
61. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
62. A cape at the southern tip of Norway.
63. An informal term for a father.
64. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
66. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
68. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
70. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
73. An informal term for a father.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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