Crossword Puzzle Number 1997 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
5. Jail in a local police station.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
15. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
16. A promise.
17. Toward the mouth or oral region.
18. People having the same social or economic status.
20. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
21. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
22. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
23. The system or principles and theory of labor unions.
25. An associate degree in nursing.
28. A crime syndicate in the United States.
31. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
32. An endorsement.
36. Of or at or relating to an anode.
38. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
40. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
41. Infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium.
42. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
45. State in northeastern India.
47. A city in northwestern Syria.
49. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
51. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
52. Not only so, but.
53. Spherical gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies.
54. An inflammatory swelling or sore.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. An endorsement.
58. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
60. Being one more than fifty.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
65. The first light of day.
69. Having a woven pattern.
73. Seal again.
74. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
78. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
79. Large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws.
81. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
82. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
83. Any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces).
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
2. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
3. Using speech rather than writing.
4. Lost temporarily.
5. A long-playing phonograph record.
6. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
7. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
8. The basic unit of money in Slovakia.
9. Russian ballet dancer (1910-1998).
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. 3rd largest island in the world.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
14. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
19. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
24. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
26. An informal term for a father.
27. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
29. A scheming person.
30. Area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute.
33. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
34. A tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants.
37. A mistake resulting from inattention.
39. By chance.
43. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
44. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. A deep bow.
48. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
50. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
57. A traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat.
59. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
61. An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal).
64. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
66. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
67. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
68. The basic unit of money in China.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. God of love and erotic desire.
75. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
76. A brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note.
80. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.

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