Crossword Puzzle Number 1554 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. In addition.
5. Pouch used in the shipment of mail.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
15. An inhabitant of Lappland.
16. Someone who guards the entrance to a building.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
20. A person responsible for hiring workers.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
23. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
25. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
28. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
29. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
31. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
34. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
36. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
40. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
41. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
42. United States comedian.
43. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
46. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
47. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
48. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
49. In a nice way.
51. A genus of tall Asian trees of the family Bombacaceae.
53. A sudden short attack.
55. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
56. Call forth.
58. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
60. A penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci.
61. (golf) The cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke.
65. A long-playing phonograph record.
68. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
70. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
72. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
76. A socially awkward or tactless act.
77. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
78. Away from the mouth or oral region.
79. On or toward the lee.
80. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
81. The sound made by a hen after laying an egg.
82. Articles of the same kind or material.

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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. A Loloish language.
3. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
6. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
8. Being three more than fifty.
9. A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle).
10. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
11. Relating to or associated with or comprising a convolution of the brain.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. (informal) Exceptionally good.
14. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
19. United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967).
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
27. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
30. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
32. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity.
33. Fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses.
35. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
37. Indigo bush.
38. A rotating power drill powered by an electric motor.
39. Any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
50. Portable power saw.
52. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
54. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
57. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
59. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
62. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
63. Flexible twig of a willow tree.
64. A native American tent.
66. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
71. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. A licensed medical practitioner.
75. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.

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