Crossword Puzzle Number 5760 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. Backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back.
11. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Information known only to a special group.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
18. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
20. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
22. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
23. The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen.
25. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
27. The fatty flesh of eel.
30. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
34. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
36. Lacking excess flesh.
40. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
41. A particular environment or walk of life.
45. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
48. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
49. The wool of a sheep or similar animal.
51. A bachelor's degree in religion.
52. Of the color of rust.
54. Of or relating to a caesura.
57. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
58. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
61. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
64. A large quantity of written matter.
66. A coagulation factor (trade name Hemofil) whose absence is associated with hemophilia A.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. Something transitory.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. Be seated.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
82. A unit of pressure.
83. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
84. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.

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1. A band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain.
2. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
3. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
4. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
5. Liquid excretory product.
6. One million periods per second.
7. A decree that prohibits something.
8. Type genus of the Anatidae.
9. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
11. A person forced to flee from home or country.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
14. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
19. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
21. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
24. A Mid-Atlantic state.
26. German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20-th century German literature (1875-1926).
28. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. A genus of Reduviidae.
32. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
33. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. The longest division of geological time.
38. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
39. (British) "use your noddle".
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
44. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
46. Made warm or hot.
47. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
50. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
53. Annual and perennial herbs of damp habitats.
55. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
56. A state in New England.
59. A bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
62. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
63. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
65. A source of danger.
67. Armor plate that protects the chest.
68. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
69. A three-tone Chadic language.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. Set down according to a plan.
72. An informal term for a father.
73. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
76. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. The force of workers available.

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