Crossword Puzzle Number 5892 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. In or toward the northern parts of a state, as in "upstate New York".
12. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
15. The sixth month of the civil year.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere.
19. English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899).
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. Type genus of the Amiidae.
22. (chemistry) Relating to or containing the azido group N3.
23. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
25. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
27. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
29. Add ions to.
32. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
33. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
37. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
40. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
41. A three-tone Chadic language.
43. Wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns.
44. An honorary degree in science.
46. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
47. Sour or bitter in taste.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. A coarse twilled cotton fabric used for uniforms.
53. Related by marriage.
55. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
56. New information about specific and timely events.
58. In operation or operational.
59. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
61. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
62. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
64. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
65. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
68. Having no fever.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. Something transitory.
76. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
77. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
78. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
80. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
81. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
82. (informal) Of the highest quality.

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1. Fallow deer.
2. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
3. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
4. A large fleet.
5. The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating).
6. An informal term for a father.
7. A shade of brown with a tinge of red.
8. Common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers.
9. Of or relating to or characteristic of Angola or its people.
10. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
11. Someone who consumes food for nourishment.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
14. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
24. A circular segment of a curve.
26. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
28. A port city in southwestern Iran.
30. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
31. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
34. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
35. Involving two dimensions.
36. An epic in Latin by Virgil.
38. Wear away.
39. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
42. Used especially in treating bruises.
45. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
48. Being without a bone or bones.
50. Common European grape cultivated in many varieties.
51. Clear to the mind.
54. A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.
57. Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing.
60. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
63. A source of danger.
66. In bed.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
71. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
74. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

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