Crossword Puzzle Number 5265 (Medium Grid)

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1. Occurring widely (as to many people).
5. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
11. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A loud harsh or strident noise.
17. Very dark black.
18. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
19. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
20. Make amends for.
21. Stick of wax with a wick in the middle.
23. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
25. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
26. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
28. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
31. Being one more than one hundred.
33. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
34. A group of southern Bantu languages.
35. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
38. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
41. A Nilotic language.
45. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
46. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve.
52. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
53. (meteorology) Of an air current or wind.
54. By bad luck.
55. An informal term for a father.
56. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
57. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
59. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
61. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
62. Within a building.
65. Type genus of the Aphididae.
69. A kind of malacostracan crustacean.
72. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
73. An island of central Hawaii.
75. A native American tent.
76. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
77. Soviet statesman and head of state of the USSR (1875-1946).
79. A branch of the Tai languages.
80. Rate of revolution of a motor.
81. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
82. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. A Dardic language spoken in northern Kashmir.
4. A bar of sand.
5. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. The face or front of a building.
8. A primeval personification of air and breath.
9. Lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head.
10. A strong emotion.
11. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
12. Of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess.
13. Aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver.
14. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
22. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
24. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
27. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
29. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
30. Either extremity of something that has length.
32. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
36. Small goat antelope with small conical horns.
37. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
39. United States comedian.
40. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
42. Supreme Teutonic god.
43. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
44. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
47. Inability to walk.
48. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
49. In a subordinate position.
50. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
51. The wife or widow of a czar.
58. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
60. The act of detecting something.
63. Speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation.
64. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
66. A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red.
67. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
68. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
70. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
71. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
74. A resource.
78. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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