Crossword Puzzle Number 5338 (Medium Grid)

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1. In bed.
5. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
12. Inquire about.
15. A quantity of no importance.
16. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
19. Of or characteristic of or resembling a lion.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.
25. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein.
26. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
40. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
42. A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about.
44. Capital and largest city of Italy.
45. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
47. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
48. A master's degree in library science.
50. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
64. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
66. A shoe with a wedge heel.
68. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River.
70. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
71. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
72. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
75. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
76. Having leadership guidance.
77. Edible mushroom.
78. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. Again but in a new or different way.
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
4. An informal term for a father.
5. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
6. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
9. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
10. A bright spot on the parhelic circle.
11. The act of using.
12. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
22. United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union.
23. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
24. Divide by two. divide into halves.
27. English poet and literary critic (1822-1888).
28. Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel).
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834).
32. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
36. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
37. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
38. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
41. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
49. Covered with paving material.
51. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
54. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
55. A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
57. An informal term for a father.
58. Any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible.
59. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
61. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
65. Belonging to some prior time.
67. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
69. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
73. Being nine more than ninety.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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