Crossword Puzzle Number 5169 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. The capital of Tajikistan.
12. Tag the base runner to get him out.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. Of or relating to entozoa.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. Freshwater green algae.
20. A simple seat without a back or arms.
21. An electrically charged particle.
22. (Greek mythology) The daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death.
23. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
25. Used of a single unit or thing.
26. Regional and archaic.
29. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
32. A decree that prohibits something.
35. Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants).
40. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
42. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
43. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
45. Relating to or located near the organ that produces tears.
48. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
50. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
51. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
52. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
54. An area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling.
55. Talking idly or incoherently.
57. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
64. A three-year law degree.
70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
72. An island of central Hawaii.
75. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
76. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
77. One of the three prairie provinces in western Canada.
79. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
80. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
81. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. An informal term for a father.
2. Chief port of Yemen.
3. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
4. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
5. A seducer who ruins a woman.
6. A state in north central United States.
7. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
8. An antiviral drug used in the treatment of AIDS.
9. A trap for birds or small mammals.
10. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
11. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
12. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
13. Highly excited.
14. Something causes misery or death.
19. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
24. A seaport in northwestern Italy.
27. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. An edible tuber native to South America.
31. One of the three Furies.
33. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
34. 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.
36. Elegant and stylish.
37. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
38. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
39. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
41. A branch of the Tai languages.
44. Trace the shape of.
46. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
47. Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain.
49. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
53. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
56. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
60. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
62. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
66. (British) A check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed.
67. A thrusting blow with a knife.
68. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
69. God of love and erotic desire.
71. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
73. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
74. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.

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