Crossword Puzzle Number 7969 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
11. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
15. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
16. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
17. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
18. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
20. Any high mountain.
21. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
22. A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing.
24. A Loloish language.
25. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
26. Of or relating to the Rhine River and the lands adjacent to it.
28. Avatar of Vishnu.
30. A tranquilizing drug (trade name Serax) used to treat anxiety and insomnia and alcohol withdrawal.
31. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
35. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
36. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
39. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
41. A globular cloud.
46. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
48. (informal) Of the highest quality.
49. Elephant seals.
52. Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals).
55. A state in New England.
58. Jordan's port.
61. Being connected or associated.
64. English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859).
67. The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized.
70. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
71. Type genus of the Ariidae.
74. A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college.
75. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
80. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
81. Deficient in amount or quality or extent.
82. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.

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1. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
3. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
4. Snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
5. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
6. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
7. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.
8. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
9. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
10. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
11. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. (quantifier used with mass nouns) Great in quantity or degree or extent.
14. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
19. A mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal (27,790 feet high).
23. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
27. Being nine more than eighty.
29. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
32. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
33. A colt with undescended testicles.
34. Of a leaf shape.
37. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
38. Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke.
40. Beside one another in a row or rank.
42. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
43. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
44. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
45. Relating to or caused by a virus.
50. Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome.
51. The state of existing and being localized in space.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. (Irish) The sea personified.
60. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
69. Suggestive of the supernatural.
76. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
78. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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