Crossword Puzzle Number 5405 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
4. Arranged in a stack.
11. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. A wide scope.
17. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
18. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
20. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
21. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
22. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
25. Not only so, but.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Jordan's port.
33. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
37. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
42. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
44. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
45. The eighth month of the civil year.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
49. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
50. A young waitress in a night club whose costume includes a rabbit-tail and ears.
51. State in northeastern India.
53. A person forced to flee from home or country.
55. The cry made by sheep.
57. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. Of or relating to or involving an area.
61. A way of access consisting of a set of steps.
64. An Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374).
68. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
69. Fallow deer.
72. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
73. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
75. A genus of Limacidae.
76. Being one more than two.
77. Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way.
79. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
80. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
81. A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.
82. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. By bad luck.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
4. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
5. The second largest state.
6. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. A rounded projection or protuberance.
9. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
10. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
11. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
12. A city in northern India.
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
19. A formal expression of praise.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia.
26. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
27. Any unwholesome or desperate condition.
28. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
30. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
32. Spread or daub over.
34. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
35. A port city in southwestern Iran.
36. The capital of Bahrain.
38. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
39. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
43. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
46. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
47. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
52. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
54. Situated in a particular spot or position.
56. A light touch or stroke.
59. Tie again or anew.
60. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
62. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
63. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
65. Type genus of the Ranidae.
66. Supply or feed to surfeit.
67. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans.
70. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
71. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
74. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
78. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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