Crossword Puzzle Number 5925 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material.
4. (British) A restaurant where tea and light meals are available.
11. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
17. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
18. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
20. Imprudently incurring risk.
22. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
24. Cosmopolitan genus of ferns.
27. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula.
33. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
35. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
39. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
42. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
43. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
44. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
45. A state of robust good health.
48. Small genus of thistlelike herbs of the Mediterranean region.
51. Greek mythology.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
57. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
58. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
60. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
62. Give a nickname to.
64. A Loloish language.
66. Pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts.
70. Imperial moths.
74. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
75. Mako sharks.
78. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
79. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
80. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
82. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
83. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
84. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
85. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.

DOWN

1. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
3. Taken or to be taken at random.
4. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
6. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
7. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
8. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
9. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
10. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
12. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
13. An Eskimo hut.
14. Be teeming, be abuzz.
19. A town twenty miles east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name).
21. The cry made by sheep.
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
25. Russian country house.
26. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
28. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
31. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
32. A city in central Tanzania.
34. The residue that remains when something is burned.
36. A native American tent.
37. Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something.
38. The selling of something purchased.
40. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
41. Well matched.
46. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
49. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
50. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
54. Before noon.
55. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
56. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
59. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
61. The face or front of a building.
63. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
65. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
67. Characteristic of false pride.
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
69. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
71. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
72. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
73. The general activity of selling.
76. Fiddler crabs.
77. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
81. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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