Crossword Puzzle Number 5811 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Not agitated.
5. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
11. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
15. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
16. Freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk.
17. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
18. A genus of Ploceidae.
20. A hard copal derived from an African tree.
21. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
22. Half the width of an em.
23. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
24. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
25. The fifth month of the civil year.
27. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
31. The person who plays that position on a football team.
34. An informal term for a father.
36. In or of the present month.
40. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
41. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
42. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
43. (Babylonian) The sky god.
44. Evergreen tree of Pacific North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries.
47. The act of ceding.
50. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
51. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
54. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
55. Channel into a new direction.
56. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
57. Any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods.
58. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
60. A bachelor's degree in religion.
62. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
63. (informal) Roused to anger.
66. A public promotion of some product or service.
68. Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America.
72. A mask with a filter protects the face an lungs against poisonous gases.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. Develop under favorable conditions, such as germs and bacteria.
80. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
81. A bachelor's degree in theology.
82. An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North.
83. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
84. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
85. Present in great quantity.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. Having leadership guidance.
4. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
5. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
6. A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).
7. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
8. Occurring at the beginning.
9. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
10. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
11. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
14. A short theatrical episode.
19. Greek god of light.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
32. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
33. Consisting of or made of cedar.
35. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
37. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
38. A short sleep (usually not in bed).
39. A passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars).
45. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
49. A deep bow.
52. Relating to the Urdu language.
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
59. Youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali.
61. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
64. The brightest star in Cygnus.
65. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
67. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
69. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
71. A very light brown.
73. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
74. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
75. God of love and erotic desire.
78. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
79. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.

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