Crossword Puzzle Number 691 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
5. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
11. Employed in accomplishing something.
15. Highly excited.
16. A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy.
17. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
18. A quantity of no importance.
19. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up.
20. Be obedient to.
21. The father of your father or mother.
23. A tumor consisting of fatty tissue.
25. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
26. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
28. Someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
31. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. The first light of day.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
42. An informal term for a father.
44. Cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone.
46. Of or relating to or associated with the uvula.
48. Type genus of the family Mytilidae.
50. A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped.
51. Being one more than one.
52. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
54. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
59. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
61. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
63. Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
73. The money risked on a gamble.
74. The capital and largest city of Nepal.
76. A periodic paperback publication.
77. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
78. A great raja.
79. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.

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1. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
4. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
5. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
6. A person whose head is bald.
7. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
8. A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
9. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
10. Lead someone in the wrong direction.
11. A book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island.
12. A shoe carved from a single block of wood.
13. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
14. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
22. An audiotape recording of sound.
24. The striking of one body against another.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects.
30. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
34. United States film actor who played tough heroes (1907-1979).
36. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
37. Snuff colored.
38. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.
40. Any of various plants of the genus Althaea.
41. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
43. Type genus of the Amiidae.
45. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
47. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
49. A Loloish language.
55. A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease.
56. A peasant farmer in the Scottish highlands.
57. (Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
58. The event of dying or departure from life.
60. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
62. In bed.
64. Avatar of Vishnu.
65. A Russian river.
66. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
67. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
69. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
70. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
72. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
75. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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