Crossword Puzzle Number 5766 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Select as an alternative.
4. A large continuous extent of land.
12. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
15. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
16. Be central or dominant.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
20. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
21. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
22. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
23. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
24. Advance evidence for.
26. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
28. Make attractive or lovable.
30. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
31. Obtain from someone after their death.
35. An oral poliovirus vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
38. That is to say.
41. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
42. A polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms.
45. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
46. Suggestive of the supernatural.
47. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
49. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
50. A weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts).
54. 16 ounces.
55. Again but in a new or different way.
57. A horse-drawn carriage in India.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. Before noon.
62. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
63. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion.
68. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal.
76. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
77. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
78. Direct opposite.
80. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
81. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
82. A great raja.
83. The compass point midway between northeast and east.

DOWN

1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
3. Covered or furnished with tiles.
4. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
5. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
6. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
7. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596).
8. American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792).
9. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
10. Widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound.
11. (Judaism) A period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative.
12. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. Give over.
19. An elaborate song for solo voice.
25. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.
27. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
29. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
32. French impressionist painter (1841-1919).
33. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
34. Clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures.
36. A person who is the victim of ridicule or exploitation by some hostile person or influence.
37. Relating to or caused by a virus.
39. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
40. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
43. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
44. Characteristic of false pride.
48. Type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics.
51. Informal terms for a mother.
52. A city in northern India.
53. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
56. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
59. A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland).
61. A woman of refinement.
64. A quantity of no importance.
65. Tropical Asian starlings.
66. Goddess of fate.
67. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
69. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
70. Divisible by two.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. The month following March and preceding May.
75. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
79. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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