Crossword Puzzle Number 5559 (Medium Grid)

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1. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
4. A genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots.
12. The residue that remains when something is burned.
15. A city in northwestern Iran.
16. Breaking of hard tissue such as bone.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
19. A person who makes a will.
20. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
21. An elaborate song for solo voice.
23. A state in New England.
24. Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds.
26. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
29. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
31. Establish the validity of something.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
41. Jordan's port.
43. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea.
46. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
50. Any high mountain.
51. Related on the mother's side.
52. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
56. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
57. An associate degree in nursing.
58. One of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan.
62. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
64. Of or involving the ovaries.
71. A column of light (as from a beacon).
72. Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.
75. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
76. A bachelor's degree in theology.
77. Goat grass.
78. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
79. Step on it.
80. Transfer to another.
81. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.

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1. Short and fat.
2. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
3. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
4. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
5. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
6. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
7. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
8. Any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large evil-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers.
9. A member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North Carolina.
10. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
11. Any of various brown and yellow finches of pats of Europe.
12. American novelist (1909-1955).
13. The act of scanning.
14. United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961).
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
27. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
28. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
32. The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.
33. Tropical African herbs.
34. Instrument used in fighting or hunting.
36. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
40. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
42. A person who travels through the water by swimming.
44. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. A son who has the same first name as his father.
54. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
55. A person given to excessive complaints and crying.
59. A genus of Indriidae.
60. By chance.
61. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
63. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
65. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
66. A master's degree in library science.
67. A formal dance held for a school class toward the end of the academic year.
68. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
69. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
70. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
73. Estrangement from god.
74. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.

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