Crossword Puzzle Number 5660 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
5. Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage.
12. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
15. An association of criminals.
16. The domain controlled by an emir.
17. An accountant certified by the state.
18. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
20. A desert in southern Israel.
21. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
22. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
25. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
26. (Greek mythology) A maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.
28. Think moodily or anxiously about something.
30. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
31. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
35. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
36. The sign language used in the United States.
38. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
40. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
41. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
42. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
45. Having or characterized by excessive moisture.
47. An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.
50. Soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick.
52. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians.
53. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
54. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
55. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
57. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. A Scottish word.
61. An associate degree in nursing.
64. A family of acrocarpous mosses.
68. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
71. Bark in a high-pitched tone.
72. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
76. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
77. A content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb.
79. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
80. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
81. A small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A city in northern India.
2. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
3. Cause to arise.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
5. Of the blackest black.
6. Before noon.
7. Aromatic bark used as a spice.
8. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
9. A very wealthy or powerful businessman.
10. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
11. Rate of revolution of a motor.
12. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. The first month of the civil year.
29. Sound of something in rapid motion.
32. A vast multitude.
33. An inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician.
34. Travel up, "We ascended the mountain".
37. United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935).
39. Swedish economist (1898-1987).
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.
48. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
49. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
51. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
56. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
60. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
65. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
66. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
67. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
74. (Irish) The sea personified.
75. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
78. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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