Crossword Puzzle Number 5721 (Medium Grid)

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1. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
4. Having no fever.
12. The airforce of Great Britain.
15. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
16. Having a lean and bony physique.
17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
18. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
20. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. Cooked in steam.
24. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement.
26. A student who studies excessively.
27. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
29. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
32. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
33. The galley or pantry of a small ship.
36. A blank gap or missing part.
39. In bed.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. Rounded like an egg.
43. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
45. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
46. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. A state in northwestern North America.
51. Black tropical American cuckoo.
52. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. Type genus of the Anatidae.
56. Filled with a great quantity.
59. The British system of withholding tax.
60. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
61. An African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.
63. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
67. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
70. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
71. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language.
75. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
76. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
77. A city in central Italy on the Arno River.
78. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
79. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
80. An eight-sided polygon.
81. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.

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1. Type genus of the Apidae.
2. Deeply moved.
3. On or toward the lee.
4. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
5. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
6. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
7. Any of various units of capacity.
8. Marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup.
9. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
10. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
11. A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.
12. A ribbon used as a decoration.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
19. A small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication.
23. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
25. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
28. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
30. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
31. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
34. Dreamy in mood or nature.
35. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
40. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
44. Fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus.
47. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
49. Making great mental demands.
54. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
55. A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink.
57. Render capable or able for some task.
58. Not active or moving.
62. A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant.
64. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
65. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
66. Inventory accounting in which the oldest items (those first acquired) are assumed to be the first sold.
68. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
69. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
72. The products of human creativity.
73. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
74. Relating to or containing the azo radical.

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