Crossword Puzzle Number 5664 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Dutch Renaissance scholar and Roman Catholic theologian who attacked the theology of Martin Luther (1466-1536).
11. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
20. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
22. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
23. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
25. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
31. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
34. One related on the mother's side.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. An island northwest of Wales.
43. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
44. A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China.
47. Of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language.
48. Malicious burning to destroy property.
51. A written proposal or reminder.
53. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
54. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
55. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
57. In bed.
59. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
61. A language group of the Hokan family.
64. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
65. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
66. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. Having unnatural mannerisms.
74. A telegram sent abroad.
77. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
78. Something done (usually as opposed to something said).
80. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
81. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
82. Of or relating to or resembling or consisting of a thallus.
84. Term of address for a man.
85. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
86. A unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme.
87. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.

DOWN

1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A fit of shivering.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. Either extremity of something that has length.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language.
8. A unit of resistance equal to one million ohms.
9. (Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.
10. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
11. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
12. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
13. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. Jordan's port.
21. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
24. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
26. A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
32. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
33. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
35. Type genus of the Soleidae.
36. Set up for use.
37. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. A primeval personification of air and breath.
49. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957).
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
52. A doctor's degree in optometry.
56. An autocracy governed by two rulers.
58. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
60. Refuse to acknowledge.
62. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
63. The face or front of a building.
68. Cause to be embarrassed.
70. Make amends for.
71. Informal terms for a meal.
72. Aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning.
73. A rounded projection or protuberance.
75. Being seven more than fifty.
76. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
79. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
83. Being nine more than forty.

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