Crossword Puzzle Number 5003 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. Capable of being raised.
12. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
15. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
16. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking.
20. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
21. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
22. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
25. A minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services.
27. Alcoholic drink from fermented cider (`cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usage for the fermented beverage).
29. A Russian river.
31. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
32. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
35. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
37. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
40. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
42. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
44. The act of escaping physically.
46. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
48. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
50. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
51. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
52. Lower in esteem.
54. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
55. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
58. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A car that is old and unreliable.
65. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
67. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
71. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
72. A large fleet.
75. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
77. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
78. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
79. A member of a social and cultural elite especially a descendant of an Old New England family.
81. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
82. A piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments.
83. Accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier.
84. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.

DOWN

1. Informal terms for clothing.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. Short and fat.
4. Hear or try a court case anew.
5. Make amends for.
6. That is to say.
7. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. Turn pale, as if in fear.
10. Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966).
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
13. A city in northern India.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
23. Tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia.
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
26. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
28. A doctor's degree in music.
30. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
33. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
34. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
36. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
38. Jordan's port.
39. A formal expression of praise.
41. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
47. Riding without a saddle.
49. The residue that remains when something is burned.
53. Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930).
56. In bed.
57. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
59. Informal terms for a mother.
62. The fourth or lowest deck.
63. Like peat.
64. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
66. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
68. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
73. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
74. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
76. Used of a single unit or thing.
80. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.

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