Crossword Puzzle Number 5400 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
4. Respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water.
12. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
15. A period of time spent sleeping.
16. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
17. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
18. A clergyman who watches over a group of people.
20. Affect with wonder.
22. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
23. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
25. A woman of refinement.
26. American Revolutionary patriot.
28. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
31. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
33. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
34. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
37. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
41. A telegram sent abroad.
43. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Tropical Asian starlings.
52. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
53. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
56. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
59. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
61. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. An uproarious party.
65. A warning against certain acts.
68. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
71. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
73. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. United States composer (born in Hungary) who composed operettas (1887-1951).
81. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
82. Relating to anemia or suffering from anemia.
83. Using speech rather than writing.
84. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
85. Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns.
86. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. In or of the present month.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. A drama set to music.
4. Enlarged prostate.
5. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
6. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
7. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
8. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
9. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.
12. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
13. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
14. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
19. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
24. Be earlier in time.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
29. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
30. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
32. Anthropologist and linguist.
35. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
36. Danish explorer who explored the North Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741).
38. An atom having a valence of one.
40. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
42. South African term for `boss'.
44. A human female who does housework.
48. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
49. Not formal.
50. Speaking a Slavic language.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. A public promotion of some product or service.
58. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
60. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
63. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
66. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
67. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
69. A quantity of no importance.
70. Make secure by lashing.
72. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
74. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
75. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
78. Used of a single unit or thing.
79. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
80. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.

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