Crossword Puzzle Number 5801 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals.
5. A symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
15. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
16. Not worth considering.
17. A Loloish language.
18. The capital and largest city of Greece.
20. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
22. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
23. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
25. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
26. Make amends for.
27. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. Make an etching of.
35. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
38. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A quantity of no importance.
45. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
48. Declaim in an elocutionary manner.
50. One of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones.
52. An industrial city in the European part of Russia.
53. (British) Your grandmother.
54. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
57. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
60. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
62. A bowl-shaped opening at the top of a volcano.
64. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
67. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
69. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
71. A large number or amount.
72. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
73. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
75. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
76. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
77. Located in a dismal or remote area.
78. A German man.

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1. Not tense or taut.
2. Relating to or accompanying birth.
3. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
4. Any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556.
5. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
6. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
7. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
8. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
9. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
10. A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
14. Neat and tidy.
19. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
21. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
24. A decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing.
28. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
29. Of or resembling a geodesic dome.
30. A state in New England.
33. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
34. A desert in southern Israel.
36. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
37. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A cartoon character created by Walt Disney.
43. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
44. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
46. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
47. The exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders.
49. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Orudis or Orudis KT or Oruvail).
51. Harmed or injured or spoiled.
55. The capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
56. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
58. A machine or person that adds.
59. A stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably).
61. Having been read.
63. Opinion or judgment.
65. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
66. Not widely known.
68. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. (Irish) The sea personified.
74. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).

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