Crossword Puzzle Number 5555 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
4. A town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico.
12. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. A climber of vertical rock faces.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A deep bow.
20. Remote and separate physically or socially.
21. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
22. A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste.
23. Either extremity of something that has length.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. Noisy talk.
28. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
37. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
38. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
39. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
41. A circular segment of a curve.
43. Someone who attacks in search of booty.
44. (Greek mythology) A sea god.
47. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
48. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. Take in solid food.
50. Using the voice in song.
52. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing.
56. `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially Roman or Orthodox Catholic).
59. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
60. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
64. Selected as the best.
65. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
68. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
69. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
71. A locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism.
73. Tag the base runner to get him out.
74. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
75. Give life-like qualities to.
77. Gone by.
78. A student who studies excessively.
79. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
80. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.

DOWN

1. English pianist (1890-1965).
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. River in eastern Asia.
4. Deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury.
5. A large fleet.
6. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
9. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
10. After the expected or usual time.
11. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
19. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
24. Jordan's port.
27. An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.
29. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
30. Any admirable quality or attribute.
32. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
34. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.
35. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
36. An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean.
40. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
42. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
45. A northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia.
46. An extinct Semitic language of northern Syria.
51. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
53. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
54. Constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches.
55. An antibiotic (a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin)) used to treat bacterial infections.
57. Having winglike extensions.
58. Decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior.
61. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
62. An iconic mental representation.
63. The superior of an abbey of monks.
66. God of love and erotic desire.
67. Not final or absolute.
70. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
72. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
76. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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