Crossword Puzzle Number 52 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
4. Showing inappropriate levity.
12. A disease of poultry.
15. A resource.
16. A subfamily of Indic languages.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. Any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends.
20. Muslim name for God.
22. Sharp piercing cry.
24. A reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth.
26. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
31. Any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine.
34. Make an etching of.
37. Absolve or pardon.
38. A bachelor's degree in library science.
42. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
44. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
45. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
46. Jordan's port.
50. The month following March and preceding May.
51. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
56. The eighth month of the civil year.
58. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
62. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
64. Loud confused noise from many sources.
69. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
72. An associate degree in applied science.
73. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
76. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
77. Concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong.
79. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
80. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
81. A person who sins (without repenting).
82. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Out of fashion.
2. A town in central France (south of Paris) noted for hot mineral springs.
3. Love intensely.
4. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. A sudden numbing dread.
8. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
11. A state in east central United States.
12. A source of danger.
13. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
14. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
19. The extent of something from side to side.
21. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
23. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
25. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
28. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
29. An emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows.
32. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
33. A genus of Mustelidae.
35. Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes.
36. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
39. (informal) Exceptionally good.
40. A person afflicted with leprosy.
41. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
43. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
47. Found along western Atlantic coast.
48. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
49. Offering little or no hope.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
57. Russian choreographer (1834-1905).
61. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
63. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
65. Not widely known.
66. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
67. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
68. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
74. (used especially of persons) Having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.
75. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
78. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.

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