Crossword Puzzle Number 7243 (Medium Grid)

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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. Having a margin with rounded scallops.
12. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
15. The basic unit of money in Botswana.
16. Squatting close to the ground.
17. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
18. Having or resembling a stinger or barb.
19. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
21. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
22. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
24. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. The products of human creativity.
29. English writer (1925-1994).
30. Makeup that is used to darken and thicken the eye lashes.
33. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain.
34. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
35. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
36. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
39. A hazy or indistinct representation.
43. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
44. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
45. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
47. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
52. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
53. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
58. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
59. Move away from a place into another direction.
61. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. City in Sudan.
66. Derive or receive pleasure from.
69. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
72. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. Highly excited.
76. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
78. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
79. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
80. Situated in front of the anus.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
2. A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red.
3. The twelfth month of the civil year.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
5. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
6. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
7. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
8. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
9. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
10. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
11. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
12. Ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing.
13. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
14. A formal expression of praise.
20. A resident of Iowa.
23. The opening into the stomach and that part of the stomach connected to the esophagus.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
31. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
32. Wet from being plunged into liquid.
37. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
38. Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains.
40. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
41. A language group of the Hokan family.
42. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
46. Leave voluntarily.
48. Of or relating to Hegel or his dialectic philosophy.
49. Sour or bitter in taste.
50. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
55. A decree that prohibits something.
56. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
57. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
60. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
62. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
63. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
65. A university in Connecticut.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
68. God of love and erotic desire.
70. How long something has existed.
71. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
73. The fatty flesh of eel.
77. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.

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