Crossword Puzzle Number 5956 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance.
5. The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
11. Informal terms for a mother.
15. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
16. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
17. Cry plaintively.
18. A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped.
20. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. A skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part.
24. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Having winglike extensions.
28. (Greek mythology) A sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine.
30. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
32. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
35. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
36. Battle in World War I (1917).
38. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
39. An uproarious party.
42. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
48. A drumbeat of bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters.
49. God of the Underworld.
50. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
52. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
53. Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree.
55. (Babylonian) Consort of Anu.
57. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
59. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
60. The elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object.
61. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
65. Sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative.
68. Teach new skills.
71. Tire excessively.
73. (biology) Nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism.
74. God of the earth.
75. The state capital of South Australia.
77. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
78. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
79. Containing seeds of later development.
80. An audiotape recording of sound.

DOWN

1. A ridge of sand created by the wind.
2. A powerful operating system developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
3. A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text.
4. Providing protective supervision.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
7. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
8. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
9. Any of various compounds of silicon with a more electropositive element or radical.
10. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
11. A master's degree in business.
12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
13. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
19. Not subjected to an aging process.
23. Any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals.
25. Goddess of love and fecundity.
29. King of France elected in 987 and founding the Capetian dynasty (940-996).
31. Transient cessation of respiration.
33. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
34. British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964).
37. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
40. American dwarf fan palms.
41. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
43. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
44. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
46. A signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of Parliament were condemned and abhorred.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
51. Board a train.
54. Disparaging terms for the common people.
56. United States comedian.
58. Make lively.
62. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
63. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
64. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
66. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
67. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
69. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
70. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
72. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
76. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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