Crossword Puzzle Number 4579 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. A card for sending messages by post without an envelope.
12. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
15. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
16. Without braces or props.
17. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
18. Capital of modern Macedonia.
20. Equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service.
22. Witnessed at first hand.
24. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
25. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
26. Sour or bitter in taste.
28. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
33. Smother or suppress.
35. Of or relating to or near the nares.
37. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
38. A United States youth subculture of the 1950s.
42. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
43. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
45. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
46. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
48. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. The person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. Toward the mouth or oral region.
59. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
60. A quantity of no importance.
61. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
64. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
69. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
73. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
75. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
76. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. An informal debt instrument.
82. A branch of the Tai languages.
83. The academic world.
84. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.

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1. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans.
2. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
3. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
4. (British) Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms.
5. In operation or operational.
6. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
7. Island in West Indies.
8. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
9. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
10. (British) A member of the military police.
11. A doctor's degree in religion.
12. Appeal or request earnestly.
13. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
14. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
19. Remove the clip from.
21. Of or relating to phonemes of a particular language.
23. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
27. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
29. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
31. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
36. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
39. On the move.
40. A heading that names a statute or legislative bill.
41. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
47. The inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems.
50. Obvious and dull.
51. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
52. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
58. A state in New England.
62. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
63. An enclosed space.
65. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
66. Posing no difficulty.
67. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
68. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
70. A sudden short attack.
71. Very dark black.
72. Largest known toad species.
74. The cry made by sheep.
78. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
79. Being one more than one.
80. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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