Crossword Puzzle Number 5091 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
4. The trait of being cautious and watchful.
12. An informal term for a father.
15. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
17. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. Surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain.
20. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
21. The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
25. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
26. Tasting sour like a lemon.
29. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
38. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
40. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
42. By bad luck.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
47. A unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter.
48. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
51. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
53. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
55. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
56. A quantity of no importance.
58. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
60. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
63. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
65. An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding).
69. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. Granular protein in outermost layer of endosperm of many seeds or cereal grains.
77. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
78. A kind of person.
79. An unskilled person who tries to fix or mend (usually in a clumsy way).
80. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
81. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
82. (law) The privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land).
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
2. Building material used as siding or roofing.
3. Constituting an imitation.
4. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
5. To declare or affirm as true.
6. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
7. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
8. Relating to or accompanying birth.
9. Call forth.
10. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
11. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
12. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
13. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
14. Slightly wet.
22. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
24. Type genus of the Anatidae.
27. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
28. A Russian river.
30. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
31. God of wealth and love.
33. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
34. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
36. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
37. Treated with wax.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Virus parasitic in bacteria.
44. 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.
49. A Loloish language.
50. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
57. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
59. King of Wessex whose military victories made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in England (died in 839).
61. Make less active or intense.
62. A stroke of luck.
64. A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant.
66. An Eskimo hut.
67. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
68. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
70. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
71. English essayist (1775-1834).
72. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
75. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
76. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.

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