Crossword Puzzle Number 5688 (Medium Grid)

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1. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
4. Suggesting the horror of death and decay.
12. Rate of revolution of a motor.
15. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
16. Capable of being raised.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. Letters and packages that are transported by aircraft.
20. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
22. A ribbon used as a decoration.
23. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
25. The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech.
26. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
28. A disloyal person who forsakes his cause or religion or political party or friend etc..
30. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
32. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
33. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. Decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior.
37. Having winglike extensions.
42. Tropical American flat-jointed prickly pear.
44. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
45. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
46. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
47. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
48. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
51. (Assyrian) Chief god of the Assyrians.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
55. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
56. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
58. Of or coming from the middle of a region or country.
60. A genus of Ploceidae.
64. The cry made by sheep.
67. Dependent on chance.
70. Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat was assassinated (born in 1929).
72. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
73. Someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement).
75. A Hindu prince or king in India.
76. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
77. United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court (1764-1820).
78. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
79. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.
80. Having few if any teeth.
81. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.

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1. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
2. Being three more than fifty.
3. A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle).
4. The father of your father or mother.
5. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
6. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
7. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
8. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
9. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
10. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
11. The handle of a weapon or tool.
12. The act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court).
13. The amount of money needed to purchase something.
14. An official who carries a mace of office.
19. The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
21. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
24. The sixth month of the civil year.
27. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
29. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
31. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
35. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
36. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
38. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
39. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
40. Morally bad or wrong.
41. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
43. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
49. Baby bed with high sides.
50. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
52. Durable fragrant wood.
57. A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war.
59. Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family.
61. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
62. A style of glazed earthenware.
63. The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean.
65. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
66. Jordan's port.
68. Toward the mouth or oral region.
69. An account describing incidents or events.
71. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
74. A small amount (especially of a drink).

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