Crossword Puzzle Number 5879 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A rapid bustling commotion.
4. Affiliated with one party or faction.
12. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
15. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
16. Exhibiting strength or hardness like that of iron.
17. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
18. (informal) Of the highest quality.
19. The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states.
20. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
21. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
23. A town in western Washington.
25. A three-year law degree.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A city of east central Wyoming on the North Platte river.
32. A person forced to flee from home or country.
34. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
37. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
38. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
40. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
41. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
42. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
47. Used of a single unit or thing.
48. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
49. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
51. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
52. Having or joined by a seam or seams.
54. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
55. City in Sudan.
57. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
59. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
61. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
63. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
73. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
77. A master's degree in business.
78. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
79. Bring into existence.
80. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
81. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
82. Someone who responds.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
2. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A small inflamed elevation of the skin.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
7. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
8. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
9. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
10. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
11. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
12. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
13. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
14. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
22. First in order of importance.
24. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
26. Old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat.
27. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
30. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
31. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
33. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
35. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
36. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
39. Any of various small biting flies.
43. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
44. Very dark black.
45. A rounded projection or protuberance.
46. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
50. Used of a single unit or thing.
53. Flat tableland with steep edges.
56. A genus of Stromateidae.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. 16 ounces.
62. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
68. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
69. Smallest merganser and most expert diver.
70. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
71. The sixth month of the civil year.
72. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
76. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.

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