Crossword Puzzle Number 2170 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
5. A woman host.
12. The airforce of Great Britain.
15. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
16. A false statement.
17. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
18. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
19. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
21. Highly excited.
22. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
23. A witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.
25. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
28. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
30. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
31. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
34. (Norse mythology) Wife of Thor and guardian of the home.
37. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
40. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
42. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
45. Being one more than fifty.
46. A unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar.
48. Moving quickly and lightly.
51. A farewell remark.
52. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
53. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
55. A condition requiring relief.
56. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
58. The Judeo-Christian God.
59. (British) A title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight.
62. A port town on the Atlantic coast of Portugal southeast of Lisbon.
64. Type genus of the Coraciidae.
68. (Irish) Ancient Irish god (probably a god of the sun).
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. Any object that radiates energy.
76. Informal terms for a mother.
77. A game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters.
78. A master's degree in business.
79. Seed of a pea plant.
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. A light touch or stroke.

DOWN

1. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
2. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
3. Of lesser importance or stature or rank.
4. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
5. Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric.
6. In operation or operational.
7. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
8. (prosody) Of or consisting of trochees.
9. Greek geometer (3rd century BC).
10. A unit of force equal to 1000 newtons.
11. (of something seen or heard) Clearly defined.
12. British writer of novels who was born in India.
13. On or toward the lee.
14. An imperfection in a device or machine.
24. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
26. Annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia.
27. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
29. Divulge information or secrets.
32. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level.
33. Far away from home or one's usual surroundings.
35. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
36. (psychiatry) A psychological disorder of thought or emotion.
38. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. Submerged freshwater perennials.
43. The locus of feelings and intuitions.
44. The cry made by sheep.
47. Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work.
49. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
50. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
54. A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second.
57. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
60. Disposed of as useless.
61. Silklike nylon fabric.
63. A city in northwestern Turkey.
65. A slender double-reed instrument.
66. Avatar of Vishnu.
67. The sixth month of the civil year.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
75. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.

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