Crossword Puzzle Number 4041 (Medium Grid)

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1. (Roman mythology) God of love.
5. English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903).
12. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
15. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
16. A woman poseur.
17. (informal) Of the highest quality.
18. A jaunty rhythm in music.
19. Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC).
20. The month following February and preceding April.
21. Love intensely.
23. A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter).
25. Of surpassing excellence.
28. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
29. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
30. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
34. A toothed metal band driven by two wheels.
39. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
40. Make amends for.
41. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
43. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
45. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
47. The circumstances and ideas of the present age.
49. Not reflecting light.
50. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
51. Jordan's port.
52. Lower in esteem.
54. A domain in which something is dominant.
56. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
57. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
62. A Russian river.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
65. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
72. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
75. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
79. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
80. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
81. A molding covering the joint formed by a wall and the floor.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
2. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
3. The fourth or lowest deck.
4. A used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads.
5. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
6. (Great Britain) Money received from the state.
7. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
8. The sound made by a horse.
9. A mineral consisting of cuprous oxide that is a source of copper.
10. Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods.
11. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
12. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
13. Singing jazz.
14. Suggestive of the supernatural.
22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
24. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
26. Wild geese.
27. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
31. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
32. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
33. Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder.
35. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
36. City in Sudan.
37. A well-known beach and resort area on Oahu Island southeast of Honolulu.
38. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
42. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
44. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
46. Large Indian antelope.
48. A port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. A unit of resistance equal to one million ohms.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
64. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
66. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
67. An unforeseen obstacle.
68. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
69. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. God of love and erotic desire.
73. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
74. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
78. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.

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