Crossword Puzzle Number 5055 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Immediately past.
5. An authoritative person who divines the future.
12. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
15. The goddess of the moon.
16. (plural) Rare collector's items.
17. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. An active and efficient cause.
20. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
22. English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression.
23. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
24. Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945).
25. On or toward the lee.
26. The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales.
29. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925).
34. Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
38. Spread negative information about.
42. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
43. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
45. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
46. Type genus of Crassulaceae.
49. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
50. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
53. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
54. 20 aspers equal 1 kuru.
57. The fifth of the seven canonical hours.
58. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
59. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
61. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
64. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
66. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
70. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
72. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
74. The twelfth month of the civil year.
75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
79. Fallow deer.
80. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
81. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.

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1. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
2. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
3. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
4. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
5. Any of various edible decapod crustaceans.
6. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
7. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
8. Pearl oysters.
9. Someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
12. Complacently or inanely foolish.
13. A cravat with wide square ends.
14. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
21. A member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia.
27. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
28. Of or relating to or near the nares.
31. Very sophisticated especially because of surfeit.
33. Greek wine flavored with resin.
35. (superlative of `bad') Most wanting in quality or value or condition.
36. A shape that spreads outward.
37. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
39. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
40. A linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons.
41. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
44. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
47. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
51. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
52. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes.
55. A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
56. Liquid excretory product.
60. A woman of refinement.
62. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
63. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
65. Baby bed with high sides.
67. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
68. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
69. Type genus of the Anatidae.
71. An accountant certified by the state.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
77. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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