Crossword Puzzle Number 708 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A youthful male person.
4. Someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations.
12. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
17. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
18. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
19. A quantum of electromagnetic radiation.
20. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
22. A body of troops arranged in a line.
24. Having no limbs.
26. An informal term for a father.
28. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
29. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Unpleasantly stern.
38. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting.
39. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
42. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
43. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
45. The sixth month of the civil year.
46. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
47. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. Ring or echo with sound.
53. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
56. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
59. A state in southeastern United States.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
62. Considerate and solicitous care.
65. Go ashore.
69. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
70. Having a woven pattern.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. Having a single pole.
77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
78. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
79. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
80. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
81. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
82. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Not only so, but.
4. Soft light-colored nondurable wood of the poplar.
5. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
6. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
7. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
8. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
9. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
10. Being nine more than ninety.
11. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
12. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
13. Affected manners intended to impress others.
14. In the Roman calendar.
21. A metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe).
23. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
25. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
27. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
30. Being or of the nature of an ovule.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
35. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
36. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
37. Ground snakes.
40. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
41. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
44. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
48. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
49. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
51. Durable fragrant wood.
52. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
54. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
55. The fur of the North American racoon.
58. A city in northwestern Syria.
61. Lower in esteem.
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
66. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
67. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
68. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. God of love and erotic desire.
75. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
76. Being two more than fifty.

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