Crossword Puzzle Number 5680 (Medium Grid)

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1. A rapid bustling commotion.
4. One species.
12. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
15. An accidental happening.
16. European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
19. An expression of greeting.
20. An instinctive motive.
22. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
25. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
27. Muslim name for God.
30. A thrusting blow with a knife.
33. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
34. An instinctive motive.
38. The third month of the civil year.
40. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
42. A person of French descent.
43. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
47. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
49. Of good or upper-class lineage.
53. German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900).
55. (euphemistic) "he is deceased".
56. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
57. Full of zest or vigor.
59. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
60. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
62. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
66. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
70. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
73. A branch of the Tai languages.
74. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. Oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them.
79. A master's degree in business.
80. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
81. Any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes.
82. Tag the base runner to get him out.
83. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
84. Of a potted plant.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A British doctorate.
5. Being one more than two.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. The head of the golf club that strikes the ball.
8. Turned or twisted toward one side.
9. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
10. Written matter preceding the main text of a book.
11. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
14. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
21. Locate and correct errors in a computer program code.
23. A telegram sent abroad.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
28. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
29. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
31. Old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576).
32. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
35. Chief port and economic center of Nigeria.
36. The basic unit of money in Ecuador.
37. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
39. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
41. Humorously vulgar.
48. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
50. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
51. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
52. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. An informal conversation.
61. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
63. A genus of Lamnidae.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. Jordan's port.
67. A city in northwestern Syria.
68. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
69. A lump on the body caused by a blow.
71. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
72. Trace the shape of.
76. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
77. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
78. An informal term for a father.

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