Crossword Puzzle Number 5692 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827).
17. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
18. The basic unit of money in Panama.
19. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
20. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
25. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
27. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
28. Make less active or intense.
31. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
38. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
39. Type genus of the Amiidae.
41. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. Give a nickname to.
45. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
47. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
48. A human limb.
50. (used of an anchor) Hanging clear of the bottom.
52. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
53. A line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle.
56. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
57. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
59. Water frozen in the solid state.
60. Of or relating to a creed.
62. That is dropped in a heap.
64. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
66. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
68. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
69. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
71. (of a fluid) Having been propelled about in flying drops or masses.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
79. A genus of Pyralidae.
80. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
81. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect.
83. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
84. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
85. A great raja.
86. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.

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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. Offering fun and gaiety.
4. Sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye).
5. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
6. The eleventh month of the civil year.
7. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
8. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
9. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
10. Used of a single unit or thing.
11. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
12. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
13. Fallow deer.
14. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
23. The square of a body of any size of type.
24. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
26. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
29. Having or as if having limbs (especially limbs of a specified kind).
30. Large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area.
32. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
33. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
36. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
37. Made dim or less bright.
40. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
42. (nautical) Of an anchor.
46. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. A gelatinous substance secreted by plants.
51. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
54. The template for protein synthesis.
55. Perennial herb of North America.
58. Flavored with sour orange peel.
61. An East Indian sailor.
63. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
65. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
67. A drama set to music.
70. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
72. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
73. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
74. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
77. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
78. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
82. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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