Crossword Puzzle Number 3709 (Medium Grid)

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1. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
4. Speaking of yourself in superlatives.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Deprived of parents by death or desertion.
17. 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.
18. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
19. Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities.
20. A genus of Platalea.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Not divisible by two.
25. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
27. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
28. A small island.
31. A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries.
37. Administer an oil or ointment to.
38. Act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief.
40. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
42. A dull and listless state resulting from weariness.
44. One thousand grams.
45. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
52. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
54. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
55. In bed.
56. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
57. The capital and largest city of Japan.
59. A city in northern India.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
66. A musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources.
72. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
74. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
75. A jamb for a door.
78. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
79. The cry made by sheep.
80. A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels).
81. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
82. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
83. Irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. An informal term for a father.
4. Wild and domestic cattle.
5. Brass that looks like gold.
6. Old World field mice.
7. Wearing footgear.
8. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
9. Obtain from someone after their death.
10. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
11. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
21. (Greek mythology) The husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
23. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
26. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
29. An earth color containing ferric oxides.
30. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
32. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
33. Free and relaxed in manner.
35. A member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in southwestern United States.
36. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
39. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
41. Jordan's port.
43. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
49. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
50. Being nine more than ninety.
51. Found along western Atlantic coast.
53. The state of owing money.
58. (of words) Formed in imitation of a natural sound.
60. Rapid and indistinct speech.
62. Squash bugs.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
65. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
67. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. A fraudulent business scheme.
69. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
70. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
71. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
73. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
76. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
77. Not reflecting light.

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