Crossword Puzzle Number 5317 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
12. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
16. Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks.
17. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
18. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
19. A minor match preceding the main event.
20. State in northeastern India.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. A thermoplastic polyamide.
25. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
26. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
28. The taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth.
30. A formal spoken communication delivered to an audience.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. The art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines,.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
41. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote.
42. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
44. Mother goddess.
46. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
49. An accidental happening.
51. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
52. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
53. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
56. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
57. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
59. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
61. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
64. Perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.
66. The front limb of a quadruped.
69. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
72. Jordan's port.
73. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
76. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
77. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
81. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
82. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
83. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
84. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
5. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
6. Be obedient to.
7. A small replica of a person.
8. Serving no useful purpose.
9. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
10. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
11. Of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain.
12. (Greek mythology) The goddess of the hearth and its fire in ancient mythology.
13. Remote and separate physically or socially.
14. Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind.
21. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
23. South American cavy.
27. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
29. 16 ounces.
31. A quantum of electromagnetic radiation.
32. The 3rd planet from the sun.
33. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
34. Type genus of the Lycaenidae.
37. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
39. A genus of Indriidae.
40. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
43. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
45. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
47. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
48. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
50. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
55. Make or become free of frost or ice.
58. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
60. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
62. A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the surface of the sun.
63. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.
65. Type genus of the Phocidae.
67. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
68. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
70. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
71. One of the Muslim people of Africa.
74. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
75. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
78. An informal term for a father.
79. Before noon.
80. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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