Crossword Puzzle Number 559 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
4. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
12. A three-year law degree.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
17. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
18. A fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain.
19. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.
21. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
24. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
27. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
29. Comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord.
32. Double star 15.7 light years from Earth.
36. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
37. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
40. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
41. Mix up or confuse.
43. A doctor's degree in music.
44. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
48. Towards the side away from the wind.
49. A paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs.
53. An associate degree in nursing.
54. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
56. The emotion of hate.
60. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
62. A senior clergyman.
66. Traveling on horseback.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
71. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
74. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
75. Being here now.
76. In an exposed manner.
78. An enclosed space.
79. A quantity of no importance.
80. A festival featuring African-American culture.
81. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).

DOWN

1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. In bed.
3. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
4. Viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas.
5. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
6. Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill.
7. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
11. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
12. The habitation of wild animals.
13. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
14. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
20. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
23. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
25. A band worn around the arm for decoration.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. Any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles.
31. Of time long past.
33. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
34. A folded section placed between the leaves of another publication.
35. A night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep.
38. The longest division of geological time.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
45. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
46. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. Type genus of the Amiidae.
51. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
52. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
55. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
57. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
58. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
59. (used of boats) Inclined to heel over easily under sail.
61. African mahogany trees.
63. The content of cognition.
64. A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food.
65. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
67. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
68. The act of catching an object with the hands.
69. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
72. The force of workers available.
73. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
77. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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