Crossword Puzzle Number 5241 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A rapid bustling commotion.
4. South American caracara.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
16. A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels).
17. A humorous anecdote or remark.
18. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
19. The quality of being fraudulent.
20. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
22. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
24. A neutral middle vowel.
26. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
27. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
29. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
32. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
34. On the side away from the wind.
38. Virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.
43. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
44. (prefix) Within.
45. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
48. Choose and follow.
49. Being six more than fifty.
50. The inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway).
51. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
52. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
54. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
57. Island in West Indies.
60. Offering fun and gaiety.
62. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
63. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
64. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
66. Lower in esteem.
72. Jordan's port.
75. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
76. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
79. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
80. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
81. (botany) Of some seeds.
83. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
84. The residue that remains when something is burned.
85. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
86. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.

DOWN

1. Not functioning properly.
2. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
3. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
4. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
5. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
6. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
7. Again but in a new or different way.
8. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
9. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
10. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
21. No longer frozen solid.
23. Quietly in concealment.
25. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
28. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. (Middle East) An ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup.
35. Isolated from others.
36. A handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood.
37. Thorn apple.
39. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
40. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
41. A long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs.
42. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
46. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
47. (informal) Exceptionally good.
53. Type genus of the Anatidae.
55. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
56. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
58. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
59. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
61. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
65. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
67. South African term for `boss'.
68. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
69. Something that resembles a pill in shape or size.
70. A master's degree in library science.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
74. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
77. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
78. (Irish) The sea personified.
82. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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