Crossword Puzzle Number 4417 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of pain intensity.
4. The doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable.
12. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries.
17. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
18. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
19. The decade from 1890 to 1899.
20. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. A resin used in adhesives and paints.
23. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
24. A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
26. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
28. An implement used to erase something.
29. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
32. Type genus of the Anatidae.
34. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
35. Russian dancer who was often the partner of Dame Margot Fonteyn and who defected to the United States in 1961 (born in 1938).
38. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
40. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
44. A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
47. Provided with artificial light.
48. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
50. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. A period of time spent sleeping.
52. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
62. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
65. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
67. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
71. Pasta in the form of slender tubes.
73. Look forward to the probably occurrence of.
74. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
75. A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).
78. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
79. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
80. A great raja.
81. (Irish) The sea personified.

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1. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
2. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
3. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
4. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. A confidential or secret meeting.
7. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
8. Having much flesh (especially fat).
9. Goddess of fertility.
10. A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles.
11. The capital of Lesotho.
12. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
13. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
14. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
22. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
25. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
27. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
31. Talk pompously.
33. A native-born Israeli.
36. Bark in a high-pitched tone.
37. Either extremity of something that has length.
39. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
41. Obvious and dull.
42. An iconic mental representation.
43. A shade of brown with a tinge of red.
49. The cry made by sheep.
53. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
54. Make crunching noises.
55. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
56. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
58. Small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot.
59. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
60. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
61. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
63. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
66. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
68. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
69. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
70. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
72. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
76. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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