Crossword Puzzle Number 7428 (Medium Grid)

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1. Willing to face danger.
5. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
11. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
15. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
16. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried.
17. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
18. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
19. (Jewish folklore) An artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means.
20. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
21. Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920).
23. A light touch or stroke.
24. Slightly wet.
25. The spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism.
28. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.
31. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
34. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
39. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
40. The month following July and preceding September.
41. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
44. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
45. A master's degree in fine arts.
47. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
49. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
52. Dividing an animal into right and left halves.
53. Having removed clothing.
55. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
57. Make attractive or lovable.
58. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
62. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
65. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
68. A branch of the Tai languages.
69. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
71. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783).
73. A master's degree in business.
74. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
75. Windowpane oysters.
77. Tag the base runner to get him out.
78. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
79. Regional and archaic.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A large number or amount.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. God of death.
4. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
5. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
6. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
7. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
8. English monk and scholar (672-735).
9. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. A port city in southwestern Iran.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
14. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
22. African mahogany trees.
26. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
30. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
32. A genus of Ploceidae.
33. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
35. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Unknown god.
38. The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
42. Fallow deer.
43. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
46. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods.
48. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
50. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
51. Not divisible by two.
54. Australian moundbird.
56. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
59. A genus of Lamnidae.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. Jordan's port.
63. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
64. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
66. A hazy or indistinct representation.
67. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
70. An accountant certified by the state.
72. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
76. 30 to 300 kilohertz.

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