Crossword Puzzle Number 3162 (Medium Grid)

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1. Goddess of fate.
5. (Assyrian and Babylonian) The chief sun god.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC.
16. Loggerhead turtles.
17. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
18. Dwell (archaic).
19. Any member of the genus Stentor.
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. Used of a single unit or thing.
23. Located farthest to the rear.
25. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
27. White goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures.
28. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
30. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
33. Wine from muscat grapes.
37. 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.
39. (British) A title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight.
40. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
41. A Russian river.
44. (Babylonian) The sky god.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. (British) Your grandmother.
49. Clean or orderly.
53. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
56. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. A lever that is operated with the foot.
63. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
67. An associate degree in applied science.
68. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
71. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
72. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
73. (especially of plants) Developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light.
75. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
77. Awaken once again.
78. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.

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1. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
2. Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout.
3. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
4. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
5. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
6. Treated with contempt.
7. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
8. A tall upright megalith.
9. Atlas moth.
10. An attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill).
11. A British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds.
12. A reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction.
13. Type genus of the Anatidae.
14. The state of owing money.
22. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
24. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. Of or concerning Qatar.
32. United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964).
34. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
35. Short and fat.
36. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
38. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
42. (of champagne) Extremely dry.
43. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
51. A lack of vitality.
52. Type genus of the Phocidae.
54. A respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer.
55. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
58. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
59. Understood in a certain way.
61. Avatar of Vishnu.
62. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
64. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
65. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
66. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
69. A loft for storing hay.
70. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
74. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.

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