Crossword Puzzle Number 4704 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
4. Sink below the surface.
12. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
15. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
16. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
17. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
18. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
19. Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus.
20. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
22. Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918).
24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
26. A vigorous blow.
27. English monk and scholar (672-735).
28. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
29. A small hard fruit.
31. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
34. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
38. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
39. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
41. A decree that prohibits something.
43. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
45. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
47. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
48. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
52. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
53. An awkward stupid person.
55. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
56. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.
58. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
61. (of soil) Soft and watery.
62. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
63. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
64. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
68. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
72. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Acular and Toradol) that is administered only intramuscularly.
74. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
76. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
77. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
78. African antelopes.
80. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
81. The sixth month of the civil year.
82. Having facets.
83. Being one more than ninety.

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1. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
2. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
3. Take in, also metaphorically.
4. 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.
5. In or of the month preceding the present one.
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. Tropical Asian starlings.
8. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
9. A chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction.
10. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. Type genus of the Amiidae.
13. Telephone line (Wide Area Telephone Service).
14. 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.
21. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
23. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
36. A person who participates in a meeting.
37. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
40. A Loloish language.
42. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
44. A quantity of no importance.
46. A resident of Iowa.
49. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
50. Shaped like a ring.
51. The smallest detectable sensation.
54. Unknown god.
57. A seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales.
59. The act of despoiling a country in warfare.
60. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
65. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
66. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
67. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
69. A mythical Greek hero.
70. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
71. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
73. The airforce of Great Britain.
75. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
79. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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