Crossword Puzzle Number 5436 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Cut with or as if with scissors.
11. Solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. An enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around).
17. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
18. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
20. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
22. How long something has existed.
23. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
24. Of or related to the sacred texts of Islam.
26. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
27. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
28. The state of being employed or having a job.
37. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
38. Enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance.
40. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
42. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
44. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
46. A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter).
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A sheath worn to protect a finger.
51. Being one more than fifty.
52. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. A town in central Belgium.
55. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
56. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
60. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
65. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
68. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
73. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
74. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
78. The cry made by sheep.
79. The airforce of Great Britain.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. A container.
82. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
83. City in central Iran.
84. The compass point midway between northeast and east.

DOWN

1. Costing 10 dollars.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
4. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
5. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
6. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
7. An area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq.
8. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
9. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
10. A forbidding stronghold.
11. Being ten more than one hundred.
12. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
13. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
14. One thousandth of a second.
19. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
21. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
25. American dramatist (1928- ).
29. Of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him.
30. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
31. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
32. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
35. Showing a brooding ill humor.
36. A genus of Bothidae.
39. That is to say.
41. A tributary of the Rio Grande.
43. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
45. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
47. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
58. An informal term for a father.
59. A bachelor's degree in religion.
61. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
62. Closed with a lace.
63. Of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language.
64. An uproarious party.
66. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
67. A genus of Mustelidae.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. A French abbot.
71. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
72. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
75. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
76. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
77. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

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