Crossword Puzzle Number 5588 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
5. Strong feeling or emotion.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
16. Beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae.
17. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
18. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
19. A genus of Ploceidae.
20. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783).
22. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
26. Situated in front of the anus.
28. American inventor.
31. Strong and sharp.
34. Belonging to some prior time.
38. Tufted perennial herbs of northern hemisphere.
41. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
44. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
45. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
47. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
48. Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC).
50. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
52. Having much flesh (especially fat).
53. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
54. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
58. A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.
59. Noisy quarrel.
63. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
66. An ice containing milk.
68. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
69. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
72. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
73. A sudden short attack.
74. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
76. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
77. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
78. An internal representation of the world.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
2. A response of body tissues to injury or irritation.
3. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
4. Thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
8. Low tree ferns with large fronds.
9. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
10. In operation or operational.
11. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
12. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
13. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
14. A three-tone Chadic language.
21. Whip scorpions.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
27. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
29. Characteristic of or peculiar to a woman.
30. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
32. (British) A cup of tea.
33. Slanderous defamation.
35. Cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits.
36. A short light metallic sound.
37. A radioactive transuranic element.
39. An ornamental flower garden.
40. Deeply moved.
42. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
43. A doctor's degree in optometry.
46. Oldest known reptiles.
49. A socially awkward or tactless act.
51. True confidential information.
55. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
56. Relating to or being within or near the inner side or limit.
57. 1 species.
60. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
61. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
62. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
64. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
65. Of or relating to near the ear.
67. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
70. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
71. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
75. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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