Crossword Puzzle Number 1020 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
11. Stem of plants of the Gramineae.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. Provide with a coating, as of chocolates.
17. A genus of European owls.
18. With no effort to conceal.
19. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
20. A city in western Germany.
21. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
23. Type genus of the Laridae.
25. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
26. Uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech.
29. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
34. A stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane.
38. Tallest living quadruped.
40. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
41. Distant in either space or time.
42. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
45. Tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye).
46. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
48. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
50. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
51. Place in a grave or tomb.
52. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
54. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
55. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
57. A state in north central United States.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
60. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. Make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas.
64. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
66. An elongated leather strip (or or strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. Coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States.
72. An internal representation of the world.
75. Limbless scaly elongate reptile.
76. A Dravidian language spoken by the Gond people in south central India.
78. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
79. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
80. Of or relating to the island republic of Nauru or its residents.
82. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
83. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
84. Reflex shaking caused by cold or fear or excitement.
85. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
2. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
3. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
6. An island northwest of Wales.
7. Edible viscera of a butchered animal.
8. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
9. Marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions.
10. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
11. Someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement.
12. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
13. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
14. A mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women.
22. A man who is a stupid fool.
24. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
27. Someone who attends the theater.
28. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
30. The basic unit of money in Iran.
32. A Muslim council of state.
35. (Irish) One of a group of sea demons sometimes associated with the hostile power of nature.
36. Made tough by habitual exposure.
37. A battle in 1645 that settled the outcome of the first English Civil War as the Parliamentarians won a major victory over the Royalists.
39. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
43. A decree that prohibits something.
44. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
47. Coming into existence.
49. The probability of a specified outcome.
53. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
56. Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching.
59. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
62. (with `in') Guardianship over.
63. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
65. A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightening.
67. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
68. Type genus of the Percidae.
71. Unusually short.
73. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
74. A French abbot.
77. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
81. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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