Crossword Puzzle Number 5561 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
4. 1 species.
11. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
15. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. Having two axes.
17. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
18. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
20. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
22. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
23. Suggestive of the supernatural.
26. 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.
29. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
33. A characteristic state or mode of living.
36. School of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith.
37. Young sheep.
39. (Sumerian) Sun god.
41. Common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally.
43. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827).
47. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
48. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
50. Make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird.
52. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
53. Avatar of Vishnu.
54. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
56. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
58. A football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal.
61. United States baseball player (born 1925).
62. The income arising from land or other property.
64. Come out into view, as from concealment.
68. Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
69. United States film maker (1897-1991).
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
74. Natural nitrogen-containing bases found in plants.
76. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
77. In this sense `Gentile' denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. The compass point midway between northeast and east.

DOWN

1. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
2. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
3. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options.
6. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
7. (legal terminology) The Latin word for wife.
8. (of soil) Soft and watery.
9. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
12. A special lineage.
13. The expensive fur of a mink.
14. Stalk of a moss capsule.
19. Very close and convivial.
21. Devoid of brightness or appeal.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
25. Expel, as of gases and odors.
27. Belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power.
28. The twelfth month of the civil year.
30. The event of dying or departure from life.
31. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
32. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
34. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
35. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
38. The act of swimming.
40. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
42. A windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand.
44. Sour or bitter in taste.
46. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
49. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
51. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
55. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
57. A large fleet.
59. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
60. Overly self-confident or self-assertive.
63. The act of scanning.
65. A feeling of intense anger.
66. A quantity that is added.
67. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
71. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
75. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.

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