Crossword Puzzle Number 5784 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
4. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
11. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
17. In addition.
18. United States tennis player (born in Yugoslavia in 1973).
20. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
21. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
22. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
24. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
26. A member of the Uniat Church.
27. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
29. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
34. Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again.
36. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
38. The excrement of sea birds.
41. Toward the mouth or oral region.
45. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
47. 1 species.
48. Jordan's port.
51. Express or utter with a hiss.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
56. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
59. Being ten more than eighty.
60. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
62. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
64. The largest city and former capital of Turkey.
69. First in order of importance.
72. Place side by side or in close proximity.
73. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
74. Consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl.
77. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
78. Step on it.
79. Adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing.
80. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.

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1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
4. A Nilotic language.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
7. A compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
8. Any small compartment.
9. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
10. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
11. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
12. A cloth having a crisscross design.
13. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
14. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
19. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
23. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
25. A region whose eastern part is Bangladesh and western part is included in India.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. A copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient.
31. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
32. A laminated metamorphic rock similar to granite.
33. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
35. An informal term for a father.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
40. Declare or acknowledge to be true.
42. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables.
43. A statement of fundamental facts or principles.
44. The probability of a specified outcome.
46. A place where taxis park while awaiting customers.
49. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
50. In some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae.
54. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
55. Pass by, as of time.
57. A mistake resulting from inattention.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
63. Being two more than forty.
65. Pulled or drawn tight.
66. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
67. Employed in accomplishing something.
68. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
70. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
71. A human limb.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
76. In operation or operational.

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