Crossword Puzzle Number 4261 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. God of the earth.
4. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
12. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
15. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
16. A substance that abrades or wears down.
17. Used of a single unit or thing.
18. The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world.
20. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
21. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
22. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
24. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
26. A person who travels through the water by swimming.
29. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
32. A native-born Israeli.
34. Any plant of the genus Erica.
37. Heat again.
41. A person who makes things.
42. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
44. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
46. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. Set down according to a plan.
50. Used of a single unit or thing.
51. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
55. Near or relating to the patella or kneecap.
61. An informal term for a father.
62. The head of a state government.
68. Lie adjacent to another.
69. In bed.
71. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
72. An aromatic balsam.
73. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
75. Chief port of Yemen.
76. A cooperative unit.
77. A port city in southwestern Iran.
78. An account describing incidents or events.

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1. A desert in central Asia.
2. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
3. A very troublesome child.
4. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
5. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).
8. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
9. Doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's self and the visible world.
10. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
11. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
12. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
13. Complacently or inanely foolish.
14. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
19. A cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin).
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
27. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
28. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
30. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
31. Found pleasant or attractive.
33. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
35. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
36. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
38. Register formally.
39. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. An animal trainer who tames wild animals.
43. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
45. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
49. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
52. Small tropical tree with tiered branches and divaricate branchlets having broad glossy dark green leaves.
53. Ruffed grouse.
54. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
56. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
57. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
58. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate.
59. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
60. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
63. A slender double-reed instrument.
64. The act of scanning.
65. An informal term for a father.
66. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
67. A narrow way or road.
70. An informal term for a father.
74. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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