Crossword Puzzle Number 5212 (Medium Grid)

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1. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
4. A person who eats all kinds of foods.
12. (informal) Roused to anger.
15. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
16. Lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
20. A small contrasting part of something.
21. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
22. Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813).
23. Any lichen of the genus Lecanora.
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
28. (physiology) Of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue.
29. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
32. The month following September and preceding November.
35. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
39. An ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm.
40. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
42. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
43. A fabric made by knitting.
45. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
47. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
48. A doctor's degree in education.
51. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
53. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
56. By bad luck.
60. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
62. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
64. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
71. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
72. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
75. Type genus of the Amiidae.
76. An organ in its earliest stage of development.
77. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.

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1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
2. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
3. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
4. (of mines and mining) Worked from the exposed surface.
5. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
6. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
7. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
8. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
9. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
10. The fur of the North American racoon.
11. Increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. An informal term for a father.
19. Lighted by moonlight.
24. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
30. Any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas.
31. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
33. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
34. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
37. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
38. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
41. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
44. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
46. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
49. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
50. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language.
52. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
54. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
55. A bright spot on the parhelic circle.
57. A populous province in northeastern China.
58. Indicating the most important performer or role.
59. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
61. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
63. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
65. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
66. A Hindu prince or king in India.
67. Adopted in order to deceive.
70. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
73. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
74. Informal terms for a mother.

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