Crossword Puzzle Number 5758 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. (often followed by `with') Damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes.
11. Young sheep.
15. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
16. Small genus of dwarf orchids.
17. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
18. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
19. A faulty shot in billiards.
20. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
24. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
26. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
28. A field of cultivated and mowed grass.
30. (grammar) Expressing existence or a state rather than an action.
33. British politician (1788-1850).
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. Having winglike extensions.
42. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
43. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
45. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
53. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
55. 1 species.
58. (chemistry) Being or containing an acid.
59. Before noon.
61. Being one more than one hundred.
62. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
63. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
64. A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
70. Chief port of Yemen.
71. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
74. A small cake leavened with yeast.
75. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
79. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
80. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
81. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.
82. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

DOWN

1. An honorary arts degree.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
4. Rate of revolution of a motor.
5. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
6. A feeling of scornful hatred.
7. North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers.
8. Set lower.
9. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant.
12. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
13. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
14. (Irish) Goddess.
23. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
27. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
29. A sudden very loud noise.
31. A book of the New Testament.
32. Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas.
34. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
35. Enthusiastic approval.
36. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
38. A genus of Indriidae.
39. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
44. Horned vipers.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
51. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
52. (Norse mythology) A dwarf who possessed a treasure that was stolen by Loki.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
57. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
60. Ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing.
65. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
66. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
67. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
68. In bed.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
72. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
73. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
76. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
77. An informal term for a father.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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