Crossword Puzzle Number 5738 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. Chief port of Yemen.
16. A benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
19. Having or using two filaments.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
23. (used of persons or the military) Not having or using arms.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. The expensive white fur of the ermine.
29. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
31. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
32. United States actor who performed with his wife Lynn Fontanne in many stage productions (1893-1977).
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Any loose flowing garment.
41. Type genus of Geastraceae.
43. Used of a single unit or thing.
44. Ground snakes.
46. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
47. A fraudulent business scheme.
49. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
51. One million periods per second.
52. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
53. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
55. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
61. A doctor's degree in religion.
62. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
65. Any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects.
68. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
69. Having or showing profound knowledge.
72. Involving two dimensions.
75. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
76. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
77. Thunderous verbal attack.
79. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
80. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
81. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea.
82. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

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1. A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
5. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
6. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
7. Provide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and cars.
8. Black tropical American cuckoo.
9. Tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers.
10. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
11. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
22. A slight amount or degree of difference.
24. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. Pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves).
30. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
34. A bad-tempered person.
35. In a softened tone.
36. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
38. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
39. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
40. Wearing or provided with clothing.
42. A white trivalent metallic element.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. The commonest protein in muscle.
50. Plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem.
54. A town in north central Oklahoma.
56. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
57. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
60. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
63. Be in contradiction with.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
66. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
67. Deciduous shrub of North America.
70. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
71. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
73. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
74. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
78. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.

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