Crossword Puzzle Number 5836 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers.
12. A castrated tomcat.
15. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
16. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
17. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
18. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
19. Someone who salvages.
20. The cry made by sheep.
21. Appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard.
23. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
25. A state in northwestern North America.
26. Being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness.
27. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. Of or belonging to an aecium.
36. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
40. Indigo bush.
41. Of or at or relating to an anode.
42. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
43. A Loloish language.
44. Not having rhyme.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. A cloth having a crisscross design.
48. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
49. State in northeastern India.
51. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
52. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
55. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
58. Being nine more than forty.
60. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
61. An East Indian sailor.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. A large double-edged broadsword.
70. A needle-like part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal.
72. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
73. Give over.
74. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
77. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
78. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
79. Used especially in treating bruises.
80. A low heavy horsecart without sides.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Being three more than fifty.
3. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
4. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
5. Type genus of the Anatidae.
6. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
7. A group of girls or young women.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
9. Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
10. A peninsula in southwestern Europe.
11. (of a liquid) Treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification.
12. A desert in central Asia.
13. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. An ancient branch of the Semitic languages.
24. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
28. Hardened sugary exudation of various trees.
30. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
31. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
33. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
34. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
35. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
37. The Fate who cuts the thread of life.
38. Squash bugs.
39. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
45. Fallow deer.
50. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
53. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
54. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
56. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
57. Any fern of the genus Osmunda.
59. Closed with a lace.
62. A person who designs and writes and tests computer programs.
63. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
64. The act of relaying something.
66. (British) A recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports.
67. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
69. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
76. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).

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