Crossword Puzzle Number 5421 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A master's degree in business.
4. Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant roselike flowers.
12. Goddess of fate.
15. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
16. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
17. A negative.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. As hot as if in an oven.
20. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
25. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
28. Type genus of the Muridae.
30. A difficult entangling situation.
33. Coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position.
37. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
40. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
41. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
44. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
46. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
48. An informal term for a father.
49. The fatty flesh of eel.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
52. A horizontal beam that extends across something.
54. A state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer.
58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
60. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
61. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
63. Enter into a list of prospective jurors.
66. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
67. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
71. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
72. An easy victory.
75. A stiff straw hat with a flat crown.
77. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
78. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
80. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
81. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
82. On end or upright.
83. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.

DOWN

1. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
2. Divulge information or secrets.
3. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. Rapid and indistinct speech.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
7. State of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior.
8. Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed.
9. Taken into the stomach.
10. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
13. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
14. Two items of the same kind.
21. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
23. An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull).
26. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
27. A native-born Israeli.
29. The Swiss Confederation escaped Hapsburg domination by their victory in 1386.
31. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
32. A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.
34. Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person.
35. Take by theft.
36. Freed from illness or injury.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Capital of Armenia.
45. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
53. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
55. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
56. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
57. Covered with scabs.
59. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
62. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
64. Blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly.
65. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
68. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
69. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
70. Weapons considered collectively.
73. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
74. A person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war.
76. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
79. Informal terms for a mother.

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