Crossword Puzzle Number 5985 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. In bed.
5. Indicating the most important performer or role.
12. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
15. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
16. A native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.
17. Used of a single unit or thing.
18. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
19. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
20. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
22. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
24. An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety.
26. A French abbot.
28. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
31. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
38. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
40. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
41. A hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum.
42. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
43. (Babylonian) The chief Babylonian god.
46. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
47. An atom having a valence of one.
49. Make or become free of frost or ice.
50. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
51. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
52. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
54. A strutting dance based on a march.
59. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
60. Any of various widely distributed beetles.
63. A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt.
65. A worker who drives mules.
66. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
70. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding.
71. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
74. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
75. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
76. Term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes.
78. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
79. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
80. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
81. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

DOWN

1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Make an etching of.
4. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
5. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
6. Covered with paving material.
7. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
8. Large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male.
9. Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar.
10. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
11. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
12. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
13. An onerous or difficult concern.
14. (informal) Very tired.
21. A deficiency of red blood cells.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
27. The capital of Kyrgystan (known as Frunze 1926-1991).
29. A member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California.
30. An act that exploits or victimizes someone.
32. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
33. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
36. (formal) A person who announces important news.
37. A state in northwestern North America.
39. Before noon.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. Fiddler crabs.
48. Trade name for a drug containing an antihistamine and a decongestant.
53. A rise in the temperature of the body.
55. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
56. Articles of the same kind or material.
57. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
58. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
61. Spanish philosopher (1235-1315).
62. Having the same or similar characteristics.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A Hindu prince or king in India.
68. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
69. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
72. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
73. Being one more than two.
77. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.

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