Crossword Puzzle Number 5238 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A French abbot.
5. Someone who escapes.
12. Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
15. A sudden short attack.
16. Any of the bones (or phalanges) of the fingers or toes.
17. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
18. In bed.
19. Be undecided about something.
20. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
22. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
24. United States writer (1871-1900).
26. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
29. Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water.
33. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
36. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
37. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
38. An oral beta blocker (trade name Visken) used in treating hypertension.
40. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
42. A branch of the Tai languages.
45. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
46. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
48. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
52. The lean flesh of a saltwater fish found it warm waters (especially Hawaii).
53. Roman general famous for giving lavish banquets (110-57 BC).
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. Of or relating to a creed.
57. A state in northwestern North America.
59. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
61. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
63. A knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain).
68. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
75. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
76. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
77. An event that is a beginning.
78. A light touch or stroke.
79. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
80. Having few if any teeth.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. A coffin along with its stand.
4. A doctor's degree in education.
5. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
6. Wearing footgear.
7. A warning against certain acts.
8. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
9. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
10. Half the width of an em.
11. Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact.
12. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
13. Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858).
14. Great merriment.
21. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
23. Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts.
25. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
27. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
28. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
30. Relating to or written in majuscule letters (which resemble modern capitals).
31. The month following February and preceding April.
32. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
34. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire.
35. Reveal the true nature of.
39. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
41. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
43. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
44. Not in action or at work.
47. Frivolous banter.
49. Small evergreen subshrubs of North America.
50. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
51. Being nine more than forty.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
60. Treated or impregnated with a foreign substance.
62. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
64. Look at with amorous intentions.
65. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
66. Something causes misery or death.
67. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
73. The habitation of wild animals.
74. The sign language used in the United States.

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