Crossword Puzzle Number 4879 (Medium Grid)

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1. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
4. A kind of malacostracan crustacean.
12. A human limb.
15. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
16. A small flat file for shaping the nails.
17. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
18. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
20. A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
22. A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. A state in north central United States.
26. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
29. Battle in World War I (1917).
30. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
32. A unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt.
34. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
35. Informal terms for a mother.
38. A genus of Mustelidae.
42. Situated at the top or highest position.
44. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
45. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
46. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
51. The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC.
52. Avatar of Vishnu.
53. Take in a sail with a brail.
54. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
58. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
59. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
63. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
66. An unforeseen obstacle.
67. Affect with wonder.
71. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
72. Old World woody vines.
74. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
78. An informal term for a father.
79. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
80. A great raja.
81. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

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1. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
4. Type genus of the Anatidae.
5. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
6. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
7. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
8. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
9. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
10. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
11. A hat that is round and black and hard with a narrow brim.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
14. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
19. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
21. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
23. A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.
27. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
28. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
31. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
33. A state in east central United States.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
39. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
40. Any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules.
41. Administer an oil or ointment to.
43. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
47. Money extracted as a penalty.
48. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. The Creator.
55. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
56. A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign.
57. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
60. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
61. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
64. Using speech rather than writing.
65. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
68. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
69. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
70. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
73. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
77. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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