Crossword Puzzle Number 5857 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A neutral middle vowel.
5. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
12. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
15. Be teeming, be abuzz.
16. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
17. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
18. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
19. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
20. United States film actor (1899-1957).
22. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.
24. Informal terms for a meal.
26. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Fiddler crabs.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
36. A large number or amount.
40. A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1643).
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
46. The content of cognition.
47. Largest known toad species.
50. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
52. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
54. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
57. Travel up, "We ascended the mountain".
58. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
61. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
62. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
63. A small rubber ball used in the game of handball.
70. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
71. Any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits.
74. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
75. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
76. Orient once again, after a disorientation.
77. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
78. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
79. Bring into existence.
80. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. Supported and operated by the government of a state.
2. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
3. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
4. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. Being nothing more than specified.
7. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
8. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
9. Being nine more than ninety.
10. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
12. God of wealth and love.
13. Involving the entire earth.
14. Tie again or anew.
21. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
23. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
25. Short and fat.
29. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
30. (a dated Briticism) A serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
31. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
33. The closing section of a musical composition.
35. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
37. A song that was formerly popular.
38. (Irish) Goddess.
39. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
41. Above the surround or above the normal position.
42. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
49. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
51. A city and port in northern Jutland.
53. (Phoenician) A fertility goddess.
55. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
56. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
59. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
60. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
64. On or toward the lee.
65. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
66. Informal abbreviation of `gentleman'.
67. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
68. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
69. A city in northern India.
72. Term of address for a man.
73. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.

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