Crossword Puzzle Number 5023 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Causing physical or especially psychological injury.
12. The month following March and preceding May.
15. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
16. Situated between the earth and the moon.
17. Being one more than six.
18. An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members.
20. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
21. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
27. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
29. A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate.
30. Of or being the lowest female voice.
33. A city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs.
35. A ray of moonlight.
37. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
38. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
42. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
43. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
46. To say or state again.
48. An informal term for a father.
50. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
51. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
54. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
57. The wood of an African obeche tree.
59. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
62. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
63. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
64. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
66. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
68. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
72. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
73. The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Tswana people in Botswana.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
79. Mountain goats.
80. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
81. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
82. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
83. A doctor's degree in education.

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1. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
2. Great merriment.
3. A thrusting blow with a knife.
4. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
5. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
6. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. A mass of undifferentiated cells from with an organ or body part develops.
8. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
9. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. An African amulet.
12. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
13. Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
14. Brightest star in Centaurus.
19. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
22. Small tropical flea.
24. A large and stately mansion.
26. Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant.
28. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
32. A person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess).
34. A formal expression of praise.
36. God of wealth and love.
39. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
40. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
41. Large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods.
44. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
49. A knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain).
52. United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990).
53. English monk and scholar (672-735).
55. Being one more than fifty.
56. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
58. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
60. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
61. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
65. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
67. Large American feline resembling a lion.
69. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
70. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
71. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
75. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
76. Black tropical American cuckoo.

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