Crossword Puzzle Number 3916 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Relating to or containing the azo radical.
4. Charge falsely or with malicious intent.
12. Inquire about.
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. The condition of having no arms.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. Forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails.
20. Of or relating to Chios.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
22. Short and fat.
23. Extremely robust.
24. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
26. A native of ancient Troy.
27. State in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.
29. A Russian river.
30. A sheltered and secluded place.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
40. Not worn away by exposure.
42. A bar of sand.
44. Daughter of Nehru who served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984).
45. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
46. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
50. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates.
58. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. A genus of Ploceidae.
60. (an Irish term of address expressing affection) Darling.
63. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
66. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
71. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
73. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
75. An associate degree in applied science.
76. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
77. No longer coiled.
79. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
80. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
81. Good weather with comfortable temperatures.
82. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.

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1. An honorary arts degree.
2. City in northwestern Jordan.
3. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
6. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound.
8. Of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies.
9. The anterior tip at the end of the suture of the nasal bones.
10. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
11. (with `in') Guardianship over.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. God of love and erotic desire.
19. A soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae.
25. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
28. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
32. (of eggs) No longer edible.
33. See, as with attention.
34. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
36. The capital city of Vietnam.
37. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
48. Subject to a demand for payment before due date.
51. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
53. An island in the Persian Gulf.
54. A Hindu prince or king in India.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. Being nine more than ninety.
61. Flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds.
62. True firs.
64. Chief port of Yemen.
65. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
68. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
69. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
70. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
72. Black tropical American cuckoo.
74. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
78. Being ten more than one hundred forty.

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