Crossword Puzzle Number 1158 (Medium Grid)

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1. An informal term for a father.
5. A resident of Nevada.
12. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
15. An elaborate song for solo voice.
16. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
19. An ordered reference standard.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
24. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation.
33. Walk clumsily.
37. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
39. Type genus of the Blattidae.
41. Rounded like an egg.
42. Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage.
44. An accountant certified by the state.
45. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
47. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
50. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
51. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
52. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
53. Small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America.
58. An associate degree in nursing.
59. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
62. A woman sahib.
64. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
66. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
67. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
70. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
71. (Sumerian) Evil storm god represented as a black bird.
73. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
76. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
77. An ester of carbamic acid.
80. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
81. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
82. A person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle).
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
6. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
7. British informal term.
8. Moth whose larvae are flour moths.
9. A feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction.
10. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
11. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
12. Of or relating to the Sikhs or Sikhism.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
14. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
20. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
23. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
25. Considerate and solicitous care.
27. A farewell remark.
28. A written symbol that is used to represent speech.
30. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
32. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
34. A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse.
35. The capital of Bahrain.
36. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
38. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
40. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
43. A Loloish language.
46. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
48. Unknown god.
49. Of an organism's environment.
54. Type genus of the Triglidae.
55. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
56. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
57. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
60. An ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
61. An honorary arts degree.
63. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
65. Flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
72. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
74. Used of a single unit or thing.
75. (Irish) The sea personified.
78. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
79. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.

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