Crossword Puzzle Number 5853 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Indicating the most important performer or role.
5. The quantity contained in a keg.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
15. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
16. The power to entice or attract through personal charm.
17. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. Speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation.
20. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
21. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
22. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
26. A trade language widely used in Chad.
30. Half the width of an em.
31. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
32. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
36. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
39. Being nine more than ninety.
42. A garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves.
44. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
46. Rate of revolution of a motor.
49. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
50. A public announcement (in church) of a proposed marriage.
54. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
55. Cause to be embarrassed.
56. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
57. Divided into two lobes.
60. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
62. Either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush.
63. A small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft.
67. Practice venesection.
71. Having or arranged in tiers.
72. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
73. Beat severely with a whip or rod.
76. Any loose flowing garment.
77. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
78. Difficult to describe.
79. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
80. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
81. The police sergeant on duty in a police station.
82. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck).
2. Reed maces.
3. A negatively charged atom.
4. The mistake of not following suit when able to do so.
5. Unknown god.
6. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
7. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
8. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
9. A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign.
10. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. The sixth month of the civil year.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
19. A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people.
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
27. A midwestern state in north central United States.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
33. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
34. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
35. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
37. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
38. Obvious and dull.
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. Remove the yoke from, as of a draft animal.
47. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
48. A Nilotic language.
51. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
52. Being one more than twelve.
53. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
58. (used informally especially of bones) Fractured.
59. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
61. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
64. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
68. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
69. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
70. A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.
74. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
75. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.

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