Crossword Puzzle Number 5712 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. Clean refuse from.
12. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
15. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
16. Evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with thick and colorful leathery leaves.
17. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
18. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. A local computer network for communication between computers.
20. Deprived of sight.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants.
28. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
29. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
30. The amount that has spoiled.
35. A young male horse under the age of four.
36. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Of or relating to near the ear.
43. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
44. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
45. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
50. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
51. Any thick messy substance.
53. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
54. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
55. A state in New England.
57. A resident of Montana.
62. A bachelor's degree in literature.
63. Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries.
66. The quarter of many European cities in which Jews are required to live.
70. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.
71. An iconic mental representation.
74. An associate degree in applied science.
75. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
76. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
78. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
79. Declare untrue.
80. Smeared with something that soils or stains.
81. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. 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.
2. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
3. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
4. A white trivalent metallic element.
5. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
6. The sixth month of the civil year.
7. Common European grape cultivated in many varieties.
8. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
9. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
10. (Babylonian) Goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta.
11. Tropical African herbs.
12. The location of something surrounded by other things.
13. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
14. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
21. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
23. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Perennial plants resembling yucca.
27. A situation comedy.
31. Thick (often creamy) soup.
32. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
33. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. Someone whose business is advertising.
40. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
41. At full speed.
46. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
47. Neither warm or very cold.
48. The upper end of a bitt.
49. Talk pompously.
52. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
56. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
58. Worry unnecessarily of excessively.
59. United States religious leader who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized (1774-1821).
60. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
61. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
64. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
65. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
67. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
68. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
69. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
72. A master's degree in business.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. Before noon.

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