Crossword Puzzle Number 5480 (Medium Grid)

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1. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
5. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
11. An unforeseen obstacle.
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
16. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
17. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
18. The cry made by sheep.
20. State of being husband and wife.
22. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
25. Register formally.
26. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
28. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
29. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. The eighth month of the civil year.
36. Ruffed grouse.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
43. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
45. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
46. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
47. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
51. Goddess of fertility.
53. Of or relating to or involving an area.
56. Lower in esteem.
57. Being nothing more than specified.
58. An airplane that can land on or take off from water.
60. Furnished with people.
62. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
63. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
64. Liquid excretory product.
65. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
72. A matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight.
74. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
76. A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.
78. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
79. One or some or every or all without specification.
80. Farther along in physical or mental development.
81. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.

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1. A French abbot.
2. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
3. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
4. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
6. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
7. A state in the eastern United States.
8. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
9. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
10. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
11. A large and noisy party of people.
12. (of actions or states) Slightly short of or not quite accomplished.
13. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
14. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
19. A doctor's degree in optometry.
21. The feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced.
23. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
30. Come or be in close contact with.
31. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
34. Feel admiration for.
35. Above the surround or above the normal position.
37. An ability that has been acquired by training.
39. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
42. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
44. Mollusk with a low conical shell.
48. In bed.
49. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
50. (optics) Varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape.
52. Macedonian general who accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia.
54. With eagerness.
55. With rapid movements.
59. In a foreign country.
61. Used of mouth or eyes.
66. A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
67. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
68. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
69. A soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment).
70. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
71. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.

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