Crossword Puzzle Number 1034 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
4. A Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains.
12. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. Large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers.
17. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
20. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
21. Of or relating to or near the nares.
23. Lost temporarily.
26. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
27. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
31. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
32. Extremely pleasant in a gentle way.
35. The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed.
40. A genus of Ploceidae.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
47. United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931).
50. The elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object.
52. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. Extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dying and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails.
54. A Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Celebrex) that relieves pain without harming the digestive tract.
57. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
58. Wasting time.
60. Suggestive of the supernatural.
61. One thousand grams.
62. A promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books).
64. A city in east central Texas.
70. Suitable for formal occasions.
73. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
76. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
77. An informal term for a father.
78. The quantity broken.
80. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
81. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
82. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
2. Large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind.
3. A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure.
4. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
5. A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein.
6. Two items of the same kind.
7. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
8. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. Being nine more than forty.
10. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. Having an agreeably pungent taste.
13. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
14. Moderate in type or degree or effect or force.
19. A stroke of luck.
22. Disparaging terms for the common people.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
28. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
29. A city in northwest Texas south of Amarillo.
30. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
33. Someone who admires a young woman.
34. A splendid assemblage (especially of famous people).
36. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
37. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
38. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
39. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard).
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. A person of unquestioning obedience.
45. The univalent unsaturated organic radical C3H5.
48. British slang.
49. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
51. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
55. United States baseball player (born 1925).
56. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
59. A person who owns or operates oil wells.
63. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats).
65. Type genus of the Anatidae.
66. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
67. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
68. A primeval personification of air and breath.
69. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
74. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
75. Tag the base runner to get him out.
79. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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