Crossword Puzzle Number 5659 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
17. Late time of life.
18. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
20. (Roman mythology) Goddess of wisdom.
22. American novelist (1909-1955).
25. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
26. One million periods per second.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. A quadrille for 8 or 16 couples.
38. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
42. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
43. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
44. Used of a single unit or thing.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
51. Divulge information or secrets.
53. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
55. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
56. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
58. Two items of the same kind.
59. The basic unit of money in China.
65. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
68. 1 species.
70. A sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet.
73. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
74. The condition of having no arms.
77. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
78. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
79. In constant agitation.
80. A doctor's degree in education.

DOWN

1. An informal term for a father.
2. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
3. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. (usually plural) A destructive action.
8. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
9. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
10. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
11. A decree that prohibits something.
12. Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air.
13. An acronym for Emissions of Light and Very low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources.
14. American Revolutionary patriot.
19. A river in Germany.
21. Make richer.
23. All the plant life in a particular region.
24. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
30. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
32. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
34. English monk and scholar (672-735).
36. A program that is broadcast again.
37. Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions.
39. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
40. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
41. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
45. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
47. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
48. (especially of plants) Developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light.
50. A British doctorate.
52. Short and fat.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. A city in east central Texas.
61. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
62. A French abbot.
63. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
64. Having made preparations.
66. A system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
69. An associate degree in applied science.
71. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
72. A flexible container with a single opening.
75. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
76. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).

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