Crossword Puzzle Number 5783 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.
5. (Old Testament) The son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac.
12. Fiddler crabs.
15. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
16. (trademark) A fabric made from a twilled mixture of cotton and wool.
17. A boy or man.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A large indefinite number.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. An American follower of the Mennonite Bishop Amman.
32. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
35. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
36. A member of the Uniat Church.
37. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
38. Of or like a cecum.
40. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
41. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
42. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
44. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
47. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
48. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. After noon.
58. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. Make amendments to.
62. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
66. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
68. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
70. A periodic paperback publication.
71. Slightly open.
72. Relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name.
74. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
75. The handle of a weapon or tool.
76. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
77. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.

DOWN

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
4. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
5. Being one more than three.
6. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
7. Lessened sensitivity to odors.
8. The food served and eaten at one time.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
11. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
12. Pain in the gums.
13. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
20. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
22. A festival featuring African-American culture.
23. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
24. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
25. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
27. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
28. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
30. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
31. A thrusting blow with a knife.
33. The act of refusing a request.
34. Go on board.
39. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
43. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
45. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
46. A master's degree in business.
49. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
50. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
51. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
53. A port and state capital of Tasmania.
54. Of or relating to a pointed conical tooth.
55. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. Any of various brown and yellow finches of pats of Europe.
59. A Hindu prince or king in India.
61. Informal terms for a mother.
63. An Asian river between China and Russia.
64. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
65. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
67. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
69. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
73. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.

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