Crossword Puzzle Number 5865 (Medium Grid)

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1. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
4. A learned fool.
12. Make amends for.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. A small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape.
17. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
18. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
19. Red breed of domestic rabbits.
20. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
21. British writer of novels who was born in India.
23. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
27. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
29. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
31. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
32. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
36. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
40. Paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office).
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
47. God of the underworld.
48. A hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover.
50. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
53. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
54. An onerous or difficult concern.
56. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
57. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
58. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
61. A city in northwest Texas south of Amarillo.
66. Being ahead of time or need.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Covered with a roof.
75. Sour or bitter in taste.
76. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
77. Plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem.
79. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
80. A case for containing a set of articles.
81. A minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages.
82. Range of what one can know or understand.

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1. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
2. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
3. Suitable for formal occasions.
4. Moderate in type or degree or effect or force.
5. Alloy of copper and tin and zinc.
6. A strong cord v 1.
7. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
8. A large and strong and heavyset man.
9. Small genus of Australian shrubs or trees.
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
13. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
14. A cruel and brutal fellow.
22. Leafless East Indian vine.
24. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
30. Indigo bush.
33. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
34. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
35. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
37. An informal term for a father.
38. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
39. A Nilotic language.
41. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
43. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. A city in northern India.
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
55. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
59. Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories.
60. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
62. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
63. Anything that serves as an enticement.
64. Neither warm or very cold.
65. A cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids.
67. Characteristic of false pride.
68. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
69. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
70. Very dark black.
73. (British informal) Not to be deceived or hoodwinked n 1.
74. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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