Crossword Puzzle Number 5024 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. An alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge.
11. A gait in which steps and hops alternate.
15. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
16. A unit of temperature on the Rankine scale.
17. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
18. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
19. A genus of evergreen climbers.
20. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
21. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
23. Darkened by clouds.
25. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
26. Unlicensed drinking establishment.
28. Small usually single-celled reproductive body produced especially by certain bacteria and algae and fungi and nonflowering plants.
31. Able to act at will.
32. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
36. The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs.
39. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
41. A strong emotion.
42. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
43. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
46. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
48. 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.
49. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
51. An established line of travel or access.
52. The residue that remains when something is burned.
53. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
54. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
55. Affectedly trendy.
58. English poet (born in 1930).
60. Adult female chicken.
61. Lacking self-confidence.
62. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
66. A farewell remark.
71. Advanced in years.
72. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
74. A loose cloak with a hood.
76. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
77. A state in midwestern United States.
79. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
80. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
81. A drawing intended to explain how something works.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. The occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. (biology) Any hook-shaped process or part.
7. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
8. A shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass.
9. Without lobes.
10. Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae.
11. A genus of Sterninae.
12. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
13. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
14. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
22. Type genus of the Corixidae.
24. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
27. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
29. Slightly pale.
30. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
33. A herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves.
34. The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean.
35. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
37. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
38. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
40. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
45. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic.
47. Of or relating to a coast.
50. Mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled grayish-brown plumage and large eyes.
56. Arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments.
57. English pianist (1890-1965).
59. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. Extremely robust.
69. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
70. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
73. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
75. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
78. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.

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