Crossword Puzzle Number 5899 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. Relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening.
12. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
15. (Irish) The sea personified.
16. Any plant of the genus Caragana having even-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers followed by seeds in a linear pod.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. The mother of your father or mother.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
23. God of fire.
24. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
25. Suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure.
27. Malicious burning to destroy property.
30. A French river.
31. Any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
38. A step in walking or running.
39. Nearly cosmopolitan family.
40. A European river.
44. A white trivalent metallic element.
45. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
47. (botany) Tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed.
50. Being one more than one hundred.
51. Bright and pleasant.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
54. A Loloish language.
56. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
59. An incorrect deal.
63. Half the width of an em.
64. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
65. 16th President of the United States.
69. A doctor's degree in music.
72. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
73. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
76. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract.
78. Leather from the skin of swine.
79. (informal) Roused to anger.
80. Any of various small biting flies.
81. Shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage.
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
3. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. A genus of tuberous-rooted vines of the family Dioscoreaceae.
6. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
7. Informal terms for a mother.
8. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
9. Arranged or displayed systematically in table form.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. Of or relating to Laos or its people.
12. A used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads.
13. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
14. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
19. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
22. Any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language.
26. An edible tuber native to South America.
28. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
29. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. A severe or trying experience.
33. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
36. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
37. Of or belonging to an aecium.
41. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
42. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
43. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
46. A cigar made with light-colored tobacco.
48. Like a lamb in meekness and gentleness.
49. A woman of refinement.
55. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
57. A short coat.
58. (Norse mythology) An enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin.
60. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
61. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
62. Squash bugs.
66. Extremely robust.
67. An inhabitant of Lappland.
68. At a previous time.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. An informal term for a father.
74. Gone by.
75. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.

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