Crossword Puzzle Number 5762 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A column of light (as from a beacon).
4. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
11. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
17. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
18. Preserve of crushed fruit.
19. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
20. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
21. A deficiency of red blood cells.
23. Divulge information or secrets.
25. Little known Kamarupan languages.
26. Obvious and dull.
28. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
30. In addition.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
35. One related on the mother's side.
39. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
40. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
45. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
47. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
48. Leave voluntarily.
51. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
53. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
55. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
56. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
57. A city in east-central France on the Rhone River.
58. Exposing human folly to ridicule.
60. Adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing.
62. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
63. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
64. A light touch or stroke.
67. A young pig.
71. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
74. The sixth month of the civil year.
76. European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison.
78. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
79. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
80. Any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears.
81. A periodic paperback publication.
82. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
83. A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic.
84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
4. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
5. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
6. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
7. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
8. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
9. A member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec.
10. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
11. A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah.
12. Jordan's port.
13. Make anew.
14. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
22. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
24. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
27. A skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law v 1.
29. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
31. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
33. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
34. Any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers.
36. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
37. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly.
38. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
43. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
44. Austrian writer (1881-1942).
46. A deep bow.
49. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
50. (medicine) A grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
52. Someone making a search or inquiry.
54. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
59. The part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks.
61. Contemptibly small in amount.
65. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
68. A fastener for a door or lid.
69. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
70. A large number or amount.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
75. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
77. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.

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