Crossword Puzzle Number 544 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers.
5. The application of plaster.
12. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
15. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display.
16. Produced under conditions involving intense heat.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
19. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
20. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
22. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
24. Used in combination.
26. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
27. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
28. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
29. A firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater.
32. Any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action.
36. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
38. An uproarious party.
39. British composer (1857-1934).
41. A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
45. A narrow way or road.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. Possible to sell.
50. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
51. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
52. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
53. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
54. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
57. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
62. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
63. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
71. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
74. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
75. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
78. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
79. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
80. Extreme mental retardation.
81. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.

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1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
2. Being two more than sixty.
3. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
4. A person active in party politics.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Become or cause to become soft or liquid.
8. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
9. French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994).
10. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. Having a long narrow cut.
14. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
21. The dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear.
23. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
25. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
30. Of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot.
31. Provide with choice or abundant food or drink.
33. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
34. A family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States.
35. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
37. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
40. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
42. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
44. Not only so, but.
48. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
49. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
55. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. (informal) Of the highest quality.
59. A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina.
60. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
61. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
64. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
65. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
66. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
70. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
72. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
73. Related by blood.
77. The square of a body of any size of type.

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