Crossword Puzzle Number 5990 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The muscular back part of the shank.
5. The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
12. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
16. Determined by mathematical computation.
17. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
18. A notice of someone's death.
19. A hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber.
20. Either extremity of something that has length.
21. Not reflecting light.
23. Wife of Balder.
25. Jordan's port.
27. Mountain quail of western United States.
29. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
31. Marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell.
32. Small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter.
36. (music) The speed at which a composition is to be played.
39. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
40. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
42. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
43. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
48. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
50. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
51. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
53. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
54. Something (especially a game) that is played again.
57. Before noon.
58. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
59. A midwestern state on the Great Plains.
65. Rounded like an egg.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
71. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
72. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
73. The frame that supports a door.
75. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
76. Used of a single unit or thing.
77. Not weaned.
78. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.

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1. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.
2. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
3. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
4. The products of human creativity.
5. A European river.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. Extremely robust.
8. A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped.
9. A building where birds are kept.
10. Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water.
11. African antelopes.
12. Lacking a centromere.
13. A woman who is the custodian of children.
14. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
22. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
24. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
26. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
28. Surpassing what is common or usual or expected.
30. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
33. Any distinct time period in a sequence of events.
34. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
35. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
37. City in Sudan.
38. Of or relating to neuroglia.
41. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
44. The capital and largest city of Nepal.
45. Used of idealized country life.
46. Having your services engaged for.
49. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
52. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
55. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
56. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
60. Very dark black.
61. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
62. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites).
63. Be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information.
64. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
66. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
67. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
70. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
74. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.

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