Crossword Puzzle Number 5722 (Medium Grid)

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1. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
5. Fraught with uncertainty or doubt.
12. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
16. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
17. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
18. The art of wine making.
19. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
20. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
21. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
25. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
26. A negatively charged atom.
28. Black tropical American cuckoo.
30. Small lynx of North America.
34. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
35. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
37. Waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers.
39. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
43. The dressed hairy coat of a mammal.
45. A Hindu prince or king in India.
48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. Wild ginger.
51. An expression of approval and commendation.
52. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
54. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
55. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
56. A university town in southeast Wyoming.
58. Marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking.
60. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
63. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
64. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
66. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
70. A forbidding stronghold.
73. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
75. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
80. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
81. City in central Iran.
82. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.

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1. A member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States.
2. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
3. A person who eats human flesh.
4. A practitioner of voodoo.
5. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
6. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
7. Common Indian weaverbird.
8. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
9. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
10. A mountainous region in central Italy.
11. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
12. A public square with room for pedestrians.
13. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
14. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
29. Type genus of the Phocidae.
31. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
32. The sixth month of the civil year.
33. Large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard.
36. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
38. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
40. Most important element.
41. Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in Eastern spiritual values (1877-1962).
42. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
44. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
46. South American cavy.
47. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
50. A city in southeastern Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC.
53. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
57. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
59. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
61. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
62. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
65. In bed.
67. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
68. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
69. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
71. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
72. The sound made by a gentle blow.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
78. Not out.

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