Crossword Puzzle Number 4238 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. A phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality.
12. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
15. A police officer who investigates crimes.
16. (medical) An absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. Early-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
24. State in northeastern India.
26. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
30. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
35. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
39. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
40. Wildly disordered.
43. Engage or hire for work.
44. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
46. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
49. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
50. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
51. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
52. (Babylonian) The sky god.
53. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
57. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
58. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
59. A distinguished female operatic singer.
61. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
63. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
65. Petty quarrel.
69. A Loloish language.
73. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
75. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
77. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
80. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
81. The cry made by sheep.
82. Elder brother of Krishna.
83. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.

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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
5. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
6. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
7. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
8. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
9. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
10. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
11. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
12. By bad luck.
13. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. (Japanese) Rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed.
27. A human limb.
28. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
29. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
31. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
34. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
36. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
37. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
38. Lay bare.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
45. Place or set apart.
47. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
48. American dramatist (1928- ).
54. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
55. Fallow deer.
56. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
60. Coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood.
62. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
64. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
66. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
67. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
68. A city in northern India.
70. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
71. Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle.
72. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
74. An accountant certified by the state.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
79. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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