Crossword Puzzle Number 5503 (Medium Grid)

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1. Injured by bites or stings.
4. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
12. An enclosed space.
15. The residue that remains when something is burned.
16. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
17. Gone by.
18. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
20. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
21. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
22. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
25. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
28. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
30. Being the only one.
34. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
37. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
39. One of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind.
42. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
43. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. Tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers.
50. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
52. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
55. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
56. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
57. An honorary degree in science.
58. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
62. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
65. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
67. Advanced in years.
68. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
70. The basic unit of money in Sweden.
72. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
77. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
78. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
79. Any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body.
2. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
3. The part of the leg between the hip and the knee.
4. The template for protein synthesis.
5. Take in solid food.
6. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
7. German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969).
8. In or of the present month.
9. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
10. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
11. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. American novelist (1909-1955).
14. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
19. State capital of Texas and site of the University of Texas.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
24. An episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll.
26. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
27. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
29. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
31. A state in New England.
32. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
33. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
35. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
36. The event of dying or departure from life.
38. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
40. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
41. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
45. Type genus of the Saururaceae.
46. A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa.
49. A branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages.
51. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
59. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
64. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
66. The act of flipping a coin.
69. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
71. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
75. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
76. Half the width of an em.

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