Crossword Puzzle Number 5382 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
16. An innocuous or inert medication.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
18. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
19. French writer (born in Belgium) best known for his detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret (1903-1989).
20. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
21. Having or covered with leaves.
23. An item of factual information derived from measurement or research.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
27. The residue that remains when something is burned.
29. Lead someone in the wrong direction.
32. An unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip.
37. Place in a grave or tomb.
38. Portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church.
39. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
40. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
45. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
46. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
48. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
50. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
52. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
53. Absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously.
54. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
55. A state in north central United States.
56. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. (formal) A person who announces important news.
68. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
72. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
73. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
75. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
76. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
80. Type genus of the Muridae.
81. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
82. Used of a single unit or thing.

DOWN

1. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
2. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
3. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
4. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo.
5. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
6. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
7. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
8. A dilute solution of acetic acid that is used as a solvent (e.g. for a drug).
9. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
10. Relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants).
11. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
12. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
24. An informal conversation.
26. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
28. The property of being physically or mentally strong.
30. Relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts.
31. The usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant.
33. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
34. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
35. Old World woody vines.
36. Use up, consume fully.
41. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
42. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
43. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
47. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
49. Any lichen of the genus Lecanora.
51. Relating to or associated with or comprising a convolution of the brain.
57. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
60. Metal shackles.
61. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
63. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
65. A very light brown.
66. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
67. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
69. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
70. Characteristic of false pride.
71. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).

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