Crossword Puzzle Number 3091 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. Channel into a new direction.
12. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
15. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
16. A corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation.
17. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
18. The tenth month of the Moslem calendar.
19. City in central Iran.
21. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
22. Terminate before completion, as of a computer process, a mission, etc..
24. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
27. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
29. Inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration.
32. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
36. Traveling on horseback.
37. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
40. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
41. Provide what is desired or needed, esp. support, food or sustenance.
43. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
44. An associate degree in applied science.
45. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
46. A worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck).
48. A disease of infants and young children.
51. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
52. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
56. A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail.
61. A public promotion of some product or service.
62. Of or connected with a deluge.
64. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. Marked by extreme anger.
73. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
74. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
75. Undergo necrosis.
76. A condition requiring relief.
77. Inquire about.
78. Not necessarily inaudible but not heard.
79. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
4. Rowdy behavior.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
7. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
8. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
9. Put to use.
10. A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing).
11. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. The template for protein synthesis.
20. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
23. Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
25. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
26. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
28. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
30. Large scissors with strong blades.
31. The body excluding the head and neck and limbs.
33. An anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations.
34. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
35. A genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF.
38. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
39. Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974).
42. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
47. Large and brightly colored handkerchief.
49. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
50. Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position.
55. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
57. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
58. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
59. A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant.
60. A loud harsh or strident noise.
63. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
65. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
66. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
67. A quantity of no importance.
70. A state of southwestern India.
71. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
72. A doctor's degree in education.

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