Crossword Puzzle Number 4509 (Medium Grid)

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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. Medicine consisting of a tablet (trade name Carafate) used to treat peptic ulcers.
12. A shape that sags.
15. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
16. One of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones.
17. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else.
20. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
22. A form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill.
24. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
26. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
27. Capable of being added or added to.
28. A tranquilizer (trade name Valium) used to relieve anxiety and relax muscles.
30. Clean or orderly.
31. Of or relating to or caused by streptococci.
32. Sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs.
36. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
40. So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe.
45. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
46. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
48. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
49. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
51. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
52. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
53. A large fleet.
55. An informal term for a father.
56. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
57. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
59. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
62. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
65. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
67. A volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
72. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
75. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
76. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
77. English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979).
79. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
81. A great raja.
82. Used of a single unit or thing.

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1. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
2. An atom having a valence of one.
3. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
4. A group of islands in the southeastern West Indies.
5. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
6. A substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket.
7. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
8. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
9. Skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends.
10. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
11. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
12. Disposed of as useless.
13. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
14. (Jewish folklore) An artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means.
21. A city in northwestern Syria.
23. The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music.
25. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
29. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
33. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
34. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
35. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
37. Hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
38. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
39. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
41. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
43. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
44. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
47. Lying in the same plane.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. Make formless.
58. Of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture.
60. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
61. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
63. In bed.
64. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
66. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
68. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
69. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
70. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
78. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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