Crossword Puzzle Number 3915 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
5. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
16. Any acid that contains oxygen.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
18. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Hebrews.
19. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
20. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
21. The sixth month of the civil year.
22. A special way of doing something.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
28. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
30. An audiotape recording of sound.
31. An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
35. Any high mountain.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
41. Relating to or accompanying birth.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options.
46. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
47. Wearing footgear.
49. (informal) Roused to anger.
50. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
52. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
55. An Anatolian language.
57. A port city in southwestern Iran.
59. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
62. French novelist.
64. To a notable extent.
66. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
70. A strong emotion.
71. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
74. A small round piece of linen place under a dish or bowl.
75. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
76. Shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus.
78. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
79. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
80. The father of your father or mother.
81. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
3. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
4. Having the surface damaged or disfigured.
5. A path along a canal or river used by animals towing boats.
6. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
7. A traditional story accepted as history.
8. The commonest type of solidified lava.
9. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
10. Pasta in long slender flat strips.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
23. A car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
29. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
32. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
33. A large fleet.
34. Darkened with overcast.
36. A major god.
38. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
39. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
42. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
45. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
48. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
51. A wave number characteristic of the wave spectrum of each element.
53. Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility.
54. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
56. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level.
58. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
60. Of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color n 1.
61. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
63. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
65. God of the Underworld.
67. Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier.
68. English essayist (1775-1834).
69. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner.
72. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
73. Late time of life.
77. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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