Crossword Puzzle Number 5673 (Medium Grid)

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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Having a capacity for adaptation.
12. Tag the base runner to get him out.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous having a keeled breastbone and vestigial tail.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. A woman protege.
20. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Providing enjoyment.
25. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
27. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
28. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
31. A genus of Lamnidae.
34. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
36. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
38. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
39. A city in northwestern Syria.
42. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
43. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
44. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
45. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
46. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
47. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
48. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
50. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
53. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
57. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
62. A state in northwestern North America.
66. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
68. Short and fat.
71. A branch of the Tai languages.
72. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
75. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
78. A light touch or stroke.
79. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
80. A landlocked republic in eastern Europe.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
7. Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep.
8. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
9. The crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals.
10. The capital and largest city of Austria.
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
13. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
22. The basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe.
24. Suggestive of the supernatural.
26. 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.
29. Troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace.
30. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
32. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
33. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
35. Any of various units of capacity.
37. A quantity that is added.
40. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
41. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
49. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. Lower in esteem.
55. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
56. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
58. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
60. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
61. Well matched.
63. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Jordan's port.
67. English essayist (1775-1834).
69. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
70. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
73. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
74. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
76. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
77. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.

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