Crossword Puzzle Number 4977 (Medium Grid)

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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
11. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
15. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Of a leaf shape.
17. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
18. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
20. A public announcement (in church) of a proposed marriage.
21. The habitation of wild animals.
22. Divulge information or secrets.
23. Light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity).
25. A state in northwestern North America.
26. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
33. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
37. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
47. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
53. A decree that prohibits something.
55. A member of the Ku Klux Klan.
56. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
58. indicate by signs.
61. A doctor's degree in religion.
62. A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water.
64. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
65. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
67. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
70. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
73. In addition.
74. The craniometric point on the sagittal suture near the lamboid suture.
77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
78. A person who makes use of a thing.
79. Gull family.
80. A light touch or stroke.
81. Female equine animal.
82. In an insincerely false manner.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
2. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. The longest division of geological time.
5. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
6. Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras.
7. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
8. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
9. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
10. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
11. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
13. Morally bad or wrong.
14. The 4th planet from the sun.
19. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
24. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
27. In bed.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
32. The act of scanning.
34. Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall.
35. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
36. (usually preceded by `in') A detail or point.
38. A quantity of no importance.
39. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame.
49. An instrument that performs analyses.
50. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.
52. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
54. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
57. City in northeast Pakistan.
59. Any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis.
60. Treat or speak of with contempt.
63. Spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods.
66. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
68. Common black European thrush.
69. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
71. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
72. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815).

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