Crossword Puzzle Number 2586 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
5. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
11. A native or inhabitant of Scotland.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
17. A cruel and brutal fellow.
18. A detachable lock.
19. English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599).
20. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
21. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor.
24. The small projection of a mammary gland.
25. Make amends for.
27. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
28. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
30. 1 species.
33. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
38. A large fleet.
42. A popular North American game bird.
45. Range of what one can know or understand.
46. Used of a single unit or thing.
47. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
49. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
54. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
56. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
57. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
59. Avatar of Vishnu.
60. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
62. A loud harsh or strident noise.
64. The father of your father or mother.
71. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
72. Informal terms for a mother.
74. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
77. The cry made by sheep.
78. A humorous play on words.
79. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
80. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.

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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. (British) A member of the military police.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.
6. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
7. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
8. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
9. An associate degree in applied science.
10. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
11. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
12. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
13. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
14. Rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts.
22. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
23. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
26. Not only so, but.
29. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
31. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
32. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
36. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
37. Cut the head of.
39. Jordan's port.
40. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
41. Squash bugs.
43. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
44. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
48. Of southern Europe.
50. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
52. A city in central Lithuania.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
58. Some point in the air.
61. A genus of Lamnidae.
63. Any plant of the genus Inula.
65. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
66. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
67. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
68. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
69. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
70. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
73. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
75. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
76. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.

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