Crossword Puzzle Number 5264 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
5. A crisp smooth lustrous fabric.
12. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. Situated in front of the anus.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
20. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. (Hinduism and Buddhism) The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.
26. The eighth month of the civil year.
30. Half the width of an em.
31. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
32. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
39. The eleventh month of the civil year.
40. A streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode.
43. A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign.
44. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
46. Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
48. Semiformal evening dress for men.
49. Look forward to the probably occurrence of.
51. Lacking sensation.
53. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
54. Absent-minded dreaming while awake.
56. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
58. Oil palms.
59. A unit of pressure.
62. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
63. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
64. A small portable timepiece.
66. Be going to.
70. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
74. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
78. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
79. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
81. Of inferior or mixed breed.
82. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
83. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
84. Related by blood.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
5. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
6. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
7. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
8. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
9. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
10. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
13. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
14. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
19. (informal) Of the highest quality.
21. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
25. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,960 feet high).
27. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
33. A statement asserting the existence or the truth of something.
34. Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers.
35. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
37. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
38. A city of southeastern Mexico.
41. A naturally occurring estrogenic hormone.
42. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
45. Common Indian weaverbird.
47. 16 ounces.
50. An orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation.
52. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
57. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
60. Lighted by or as if by twilight.
61. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
65. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
67. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
68. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
69. Informal terms for clothing.
71. Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric.
72. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
73. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
75. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
76. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. A public promotion of some product or service.

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