Crossword Puzzle Number 4313 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.
12. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
15. An accidental happening.
16. A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. American novelist (1909-1955).
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. A title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge.
23. A city in east central Texas.
24. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
26. An Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland.
27. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
29. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
32. In operation or operational.
33. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
36. Power to control.
38. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
41. Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season.
42. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
45. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
46. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
48. Hairpiece covering the head and made of human or synthetic hair.
49. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
50. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
52. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
54. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
55. A city in northern India.
58. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
62. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
64. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
70. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
71. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
74. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
79. Devoted to a cause or party.
81. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
82. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
83. (geology) Used of the earliest known rocks.
84. A young woman making her debut into society.

DOWN

1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
4. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
5. The sacred city of Lamaism.
6. An airfoil that controls lateral motion.
7. Being five more than one hundred.
8. Informal terms for money.
9. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
10. A trademark for a loosely woven cotton fabric that is used to make shirts and underwear.
11. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
13. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
14. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
19. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
22. A fraudulent business scheme.
25. Obvious and dull.
28. A cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin).
30. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
31. An important person in India.
34. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
35. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
37. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
39. A resident of Iowa.
40. Wood of a pecan tree.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
47. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
51. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
53. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
56. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
60. Affect with wonder.
61. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
63. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
65. An elaborate song for solo voice.
67. Set down according to a plan.
68. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
69. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
72. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
73. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
75. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
78. A Mid-Atlantic state.
80. The fifth day of the week.

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