Crossword Puzzle Number 5886 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An artificial source of visible illumination.
5. A primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together.
12. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
15. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
16. A rester who is sleeping.
17. An accountant certified by the state.
18. Away from the right path or direction.
20. English monk and scholar (672-735).
21. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
22. Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.
24. Being one more than one hundred.
26. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
27. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
29. Of or relating to the people of Nigeria.
32. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
36. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
37. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
39. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. Of a pale purple color.
44. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
48. The capital and largest city of Japan.
49. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
50. Of or relating to a hair.
51. Big-eyed scad.
53. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
55. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
57. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
59. A doctor's degree in religion.
60. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
62. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
69. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
70. Any of the languages spoken by the Lapp people and generally assumed to be Uralic languages.
73. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
74. The sound made by corvine birds.
75. An intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs.
77. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
78. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
79. Assail again.
80. A unit of pressure.

DOWN

1. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. Not reflecting light.
4. An expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb.
5. Small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. An antibiotic (trade name Nebcin) that is especially effective against gram-negative bacteria.
8. Seed of a pea plant.
9. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410).
23. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
25. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
28. Being nine more than ninety.
30. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
31. Someone whose occupation is apply an overlay of gold or gilt.
33. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
34. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
35. The first light of day.
38. The template for protein synthesis.
41. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
42. Treated with oil.
43. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
45. The amount that has spoiled.
46. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
47. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
52. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption.
54. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
56. Not divisible by two.
61. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
63. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
64. A neutral middle vowel.
65. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
66. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
67. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
68. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
71. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
72. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
76. Being one more than one.

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