Crossword Puzzle Number 5345 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Armor plate that protects the arm.
12. The unit of frequency.
15. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
16. Someone who plays the bagpipe.
17. Adult female chicken.
18. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
19. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
20. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
22. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
24. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
25. Deciduous flowering trees and shrubs.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
30. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
42. Toward the mouth or oral region.
43. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
45. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
46. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
48. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
50. An associate degree in applied science.
51. Jordan's port.
54. The template for protein synthesis.
55. Obvious and dull.
58. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
59. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
63. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
70. (anatomy) Opposite to or away from the mouth.
73. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
74. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
75. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
79. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
80. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
81. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

DOWN

1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
3. A woman of refinement.
4. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
5. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
6. American novelist (1909-1955).
7. Small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes.
8. Term of address for a man.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
10. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
11. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
12. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
13. A source of danger.
14. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
21. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
23. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
29. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
32. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
33. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
34. A circumscribed geographical region characterized by some distinctive features.
36. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
37. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
39. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
40. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
41. State in northeastern India.
44. God of death.
47. Round gourd of the calabash tree.
49. A person forced to flee from home or country.
52. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. Call upon in supplication.
57. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
60. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
61. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
62. A light touch or stroke.
64. In bed.
65. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
66. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
67. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
68. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
71. The sixth day of the week.
72. Towards the side away from the wind.
76. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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