Crossword Puzzle Number 5809 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
5. Dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill.
12. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
15. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
16. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
17. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
18. A city in northern India.
19. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
20. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
22. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
23. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
24. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
25. United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933).
28. Indigo bush.
29. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
32. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
33. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
36. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
40. A small lump or protuberance.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
44. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
45. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
47. The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke.
51. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
52. Learns from a tutor.
53. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
54. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
56. The month following January and preceding March.
58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
59. Jordan's port.
63. Suffering from a partial loss of memory.
68. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
69. The content of cognition.
71. Of or relating to a dyad or based on two.
72. Full of ruts.
75. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
76. Black tropical American cuckoo.
77. Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers.
79. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
80. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
81. In a somber manner.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Cry plaintively.
2. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
3. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. The father of your father or mother.
5. Relating to principles of right and wrong.
6. Water frozen in the solid state.
7. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
8. Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.
9. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. Covered with paving material.
12. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
13. A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth.
14. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. Lower in esteem.
26. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
27. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
30. Being or of the nature of an ovule.
31. Humorously vulgar.
34. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
35. Make less active or intense.
37. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
43. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
46. Necessary for relief or supply.
48. The dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
55. A statement of fundamental facts or principles.
57. A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables.
60. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
64. Tropical Asian starlings.
65. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
66. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
67. Baby bed with high sides.
70. Fallow deer.
73. The act of using.
74. A branch of the Tai languages.
78. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.

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