Crossword Puzzle Number 3639 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
4. Develop and reach maturity.
12. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
15. (informal) Roused to anger.
16. Presence of abnormal amounts of uric acid salts in the blood.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. Exploring in order to gain information.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. An Indic language.
23. Caused to be slower or later.
25. The act or process of measuring.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. A white powder (LiCO3) used in manufacturing glass and ceramics and as a drug.
31. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.
35. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting.
36. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
39. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
40. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
42. Someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose).
45. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
47. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. Raise in a relief.
54. Pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum.
56. Outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953).
57. Trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets.
60. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
62. Go with, fall together.
64. The tide while water is flowing out.
70. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
71. The capital and largest city of Burundi.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. One related on the mother's side.
77. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
78. A doctor's degree in education.
79. A mass of undifferentiated cells from with an organ or body part develops.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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1. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. Fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals.
5. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period.
6. Of or relating to the popular Chinese religious system based on the teachings of Lao-tse but including a pantheon of gods along with divination and magic.
7. (Sumerian) Sun god.
8. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
9. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
10. Prong on a fork or pitchfork.
11. A young eagle.
12. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
13. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
24. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
26. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
29. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. Large or big relative to something else.
33. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
34. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
37. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
38. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
41. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
43. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
44. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
46. The act of becoming betrothed or engaged.
50. Of or relating to near the ear.
51. Consent reluctantly.
52. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
53. A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder.
55. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
58. A French river.
59. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
61. A European river.
63. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
65. The top edge of a vessel.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
68. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
69. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
72. A form of address for a married woman.
73. Injured by bites or stings.

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