Crossword Puzzle Number 5726 (Medium Grid)

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1. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
12. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. An oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina.
17. How long something has existed.
18. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
19. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
21. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
22. An honorary degree in science.
24. The content of cognition.
25. Disabled in the feet or legs.
27. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
28. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
29. Earnest or urgent request.
32. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
34. A large number or amount.
37. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
39. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
41. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
42. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
43. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
46. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
47. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
48. A ray of moonlight.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
53. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
54. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
59. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
61. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
62. A small box-shaped passenger van.
65. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
67. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
70. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
73. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
74. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
76. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. Used of a single unit or thing.
78. Unsupported by other people.
80. (informal) Roused to anger.
81. Having leadership guidance.
82. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
4. Of or relating to the heart.
5. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
6. Seed of a pea plant.
7. Make an incision into by carving or cutting.
8. A line that indicates a boundary.
9. On or toward the lee.
10. A skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance.
11. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
12. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
13. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
14. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
20. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
23. A deep bow.
26. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
30. A person to whom money is paid.
31. Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.
33. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
35. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
36. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
38. A favorite saying of a sect or political group.
40. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
44. A state of southwestern India.
45. Again but in a new or different way.
49. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
50. A woman of refinement.
55. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
56. (computer science) A rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input.
57. A line of approach.
58. A semiautomatic rifle.
60. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
63. Complacently or inanely foolish.
64. Given or having a specified name.
66. English monk and scholar (672-735).
68. A bluish shade of green.
69. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. An informal term for a father.
75. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
79. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.

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