Crossword Puzzle Number 5161 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. Waves breaking on the shore.
12. Black tropical American cuckoo.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
17. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. Made tough by habitual exposure.
20. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
25. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
26. A notice of someone's death.
28. Small family of usually tropical butterflies.
31. A crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins.
34. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
35. A motley assortment of things.
36. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
38. Male red deer.
42. An autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century.
44. Any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods.
46. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
49. Lap at the front of a coat.
50. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
51. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
54. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
58. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
60. Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit.
63. An Australian boomerang.
65. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
66. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
67. (British slang) Cafe.
71. A language of Australian aborigines.
73. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
74. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
75. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
76. Extreme mental retardation.
79. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
80. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
81. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
82. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.

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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
5. Moving quickly on foot.
6. A liquid solution that results from elution.
7. Affected manners intended to impress others.
8. Make uniform.
9. A doctor's degree in education.
10. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
11. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
12. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
13. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
14. Complacently or inanely foolish.
21. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
23. A candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate.
27. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
29. South American cavy.
30. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. Coming at a subsequent time or stage.
33. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
37. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
39. A yellow quartz.
40. Administer an oil or ointment to.
41. Extremely cold.
43. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
45. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
47. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
53. Young of domestic cattle.
55. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
59. Of or belonging to an aecium.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms.
64. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
69. A sudden quick movement.
70. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
72. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
78. A soft silvery metallic element.

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