Crossword Puzzle Number 3600 (Medium Grid)

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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. A republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area.
12. A federally chartered savings bank.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. (physics) Involving a transfer of heat.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Preserve a dead body.
20. A colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water.
21. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
22. A state in New England.
23. (nautical) Of an anchor.
25. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. A short crowbar.
33. Without doubt or question.
37. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
39. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
40. Tasting sour like a lemon.
42. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
43. A large number or amount.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
52. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
53. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
57. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
58. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
61. To say or state again.
63. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
64. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
65. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
66. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
71. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
75. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
76. One of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital).
78. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
79. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
80. Causing or able to cause nausea.
82. Dignified manner or conduct.
83. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
84. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
85. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.

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1. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
2. The highest level or degree attainable.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
5. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
6. A state in the eastern United States.
7. (anatomy) Opposite to or away from the mouth.
8. A parenteral cephalosporin (trade names Fortaz and Tazicef) used to treat moderate infections.
9. The event of something ending.
10. Related by blood.
11. Any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules.
12. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
24. Considerate and solicitous care.
26. The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate.
27. Give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role.
28. A Mid-Atlantic state.
30. (architecture) Not arcuate.
32. Attach a yoke or harness to, as of a draft animal.
34. The sixth month of the civil year.
35. A document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay).
36. English writer (1672-1729).
38. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
41. Jordan's port.
44. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
48. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
50. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
54. 1 species.
56. Extent downward or backward or inward.
59. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
60. Fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat.
62. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
67. Little known Kamarupan languages.
68. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
69. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
70. (prefix) Half or partial.
72. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
73. Chief port of Yemen.
74. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
77. The residue that remains when something is burned.
81. The square of a body of any size of type.

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