Crossword Puzzle Number 5850 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
4. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
12. An enclosed space.
15. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
16. A horse-drawn carriage having four wheels.
17. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
19. Not friendly.
20. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
21. Singing jazz.
23. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
25. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
27. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. The square of a body of any size of type.
37. Make a dent or impression in.
39. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
41. A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula.
43. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
45. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
49. (informal) Roused to anger.
50. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
54. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
56. Inability to walk.
59. Soft creamy white cheese.
61. A plant fiber used for making rope.
63. Spreading throughout.
67. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
70. Squash bugs.
71. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
72. Liquid excretory product.
73. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
74. Someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish of other foods.
77. An act of gracious kindness.
78. The last (12th) month of the year.
79. On or to the other side of a page.
81. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
82. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
83. Having no nose.
84. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.

DOWN

1. A communication system using fiber optic cables.
2. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
3. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
4. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
5. Type genus of the Ranidae.
6. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
7. A genus of bee.
8. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
9. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
10. Small crude shelter used as a dwelling.
11. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
12. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
13. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
14. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
22. A city in southeastern South Korea.
24. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
26. One thousandth of a second.
28. Fiddler crabs.
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
35. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
36. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
38. A quantity of no importance.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
44. A genus of Platalea.
46. An associate degree in applied science.
51. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
52. Be of different opinions.
53. A native or inhabitant of Maldives.
55. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
57. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
58. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
60. A rational motive for a belief or action.
62. A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
64. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
65. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
66. The concentration of a solution as determined by titration.
68. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
69. Suggestive of the supernatural.
75. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
76. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
80. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

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