Crossword Puzzle Number 5922 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A quantity of money.
4. Act of lowering in rank or position.
12. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
15. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
16. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
17. A negative.
18. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
20. A desert in central Asia.
21. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
23. Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units.
26. Of or relating to or containing barium.
28. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
29. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
32. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
33. The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall.
37. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
39. An informal term for a father.
40. Imprudently incurring risk.
41. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
52. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
53. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
61. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
65. (informal) Very tired.
67. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
68. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
69. 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.
72. A state in northwestern North America.
73. Treat or speak of with contempt.
74. Goddess of fate.
75. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980).
78. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
79. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
80. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
2. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
3. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
4. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
5. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
6. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
7. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
9. Not out.
10. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.
11. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
12. Belonging to some prior time.
13. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
14. Opinion or judgment.
19. Someone who walks at a leisurely pace.
22. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
24. A master's degree in library science.
25. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
27. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
30. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
31. A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence.
34. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
35. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
36. Express gratitude or show appreciation to.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A path set aside for walking.
46. A mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. An anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus.
51. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
56. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
57. The vein in the center of a leaf.
58. A game played with playing cards.
59. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
60. A domain in which something is dominant.
62. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
63. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
64. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
66. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
70. An accountant certified by the state.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
76. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
77. A state in the eastern United States.

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