Crossword Puzzle Number 5331 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An honorary degree in science.
4. A short pithy instructive saying.
12. Noisy talk.
15. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
16. Loud confused noise from many sources.
17. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
18. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
19. Having a bottom of a specified character.
20. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
21. Situated in a particular spot or position.
23. Small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe.
25. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. Squash bugs.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Goddess of fertility.
39. The largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled.
40. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
41. An awkward stupid person.
43. A floor covering.
44. A humorous anecdote or remark.
48. The sign language used in the United States.
49. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
54. An expression of greeting.
56. A genus of Tettigoniidae.
58. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
62. 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.
63. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
64. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
66. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
69. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
71. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
74. A flexible container with a single opening.
75. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
79. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
80. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
81. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.

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1. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
2. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
3. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep.
4. The superior of a group of nuns.
5. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.
6. Used of physical heat.
7. Not in.
8. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
10. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
11. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
12. Not only so, but.
13. God of fire.
14. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
22. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
24. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
27. A seducer who ruins a woman.
28. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
32. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
33. The largest of the four main islands of Japan.
34. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
36. A fraudulent business scheme.
37. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
38. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
42. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
47. (aeronautics) Designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure.
50. United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919).
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. A French abbot.
55. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
57. A motley assortment of things.
59. Fill with high spirits.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
61. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
65. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
67. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
68. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
70. The residue that remains when something is burned.
72. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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