Crossword Puzzle Number 5657 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. The act of washing yourself (or another person).
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. Black tropical American cuckoo.
16. The capital of Brazil.
17. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
18. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
19. Used of a single unit or thing.
20. American landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City (1822-1903).
22. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
25. Having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices.
26. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
28. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
29. Any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit.
32. United States feminist (1860-1935).
36. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
37. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
39. Isolated from others.
40. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
41. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
43. In or of the present month.
44. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
45. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
47. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and North Asia.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
52. Of inferior or mixed breed.
53. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
55. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
57. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
58. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
61. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
64. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
71. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundaceae.
72. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
75. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
76. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
78. On or toward the lee.
79. Capital and largest city of Italy.
80. A motley assortment of things.
81. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
6. Owning or consisting of land or real estate.
7. Employed in accomplishing something.
8. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
9. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
10. Rig used in drilling for oil or gas.
11. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
12. Of or being the lowest female voice.
13. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
14. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
21. (used with `of' or `with') Noticeably odorous.
23. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
24. A soft silvery metallic element.
27. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
30. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
31. Armor plate that protects the chest.
33. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens.
34. A statement (either spoken or written) that is made in reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation.
35. Any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) v 1.
38. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
42. Wearing footgear.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
50. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
51. An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito.
54. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
56. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
59. Administer an oil or ointment to.
60. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
62. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
63. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
65. A disreputable vagrant.
66. A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
67. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
68. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
69. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
70. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
73. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
74. The cry made by sheep.
77. A form of address for a man.

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