Crossword Puzzle Number 5379 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Toward the mouth or oral region.
5. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
12. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
15. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
16. A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition.
17. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
18. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
20. Being one more than fifty.
21. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
23. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
27. A hinged pair of curved iron bars.
30. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
32. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
33. Of or relating to or containing barium.
37. Produced or growing in extreme abundance.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. A person forced to flee from home or country.
42. Fallow deer.
43. Compete for something.
45. A licensed medical practitioner.
47. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
48. (dentistry) A filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
50. Make less active or intense.
52. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
53. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
54. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
56. German philosopher (1776-1841).
58. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
60. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
64. A grant made by a law court.
70. English poet (1880-1958).
71. A person who eats human flesh.
73. Being nine more than ninety.
75. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
76. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
77. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
80. (British) Your grandmother.
81. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
82. City in central Iran.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
2. A deep prolonged loud noise.
3. American dramatist (1928- ).
4. March out (as from a defile) into open ground.
5. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
8. Great coolness and composure under strain.
9. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
10. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Ring loudly and deeply, as of bells.
13. An endorsement.
14. An informal term for a father.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. A nation in northern North America.
24. The capital and largest city of Kenya.
28. Adapt anew.
29. A Russian river.
31. Small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit.
34. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
35. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
36. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
38. Big-eyed scad.
41. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
44. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
46. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
49. (of hair) "auburn hair".
51. Freetail bats.
55. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
59. A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel).
61. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
65. A person who is under the protection or in the custody of another.
66. Type genus of the Anatidae.
67. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
68. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
69. English essayist (1775-1834).
72. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
74. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
78. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
79. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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