Crossword Puzzle Number 6120 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
4. Any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit.
12. The seventh and last day of the week.
15. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
16. A person who uses flattery.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
18. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
19. The state of being neat and smart and trim.
20. A rapid bustling commotion.
21. Any of various Spanish fortresses or palaces built by the Moors.
23. Imperial moths.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. A bachelor's degree in theology.
28. A slight amount or degree of difference.
29. A person who lacks good judgment.
34. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
37. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
38. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.
40. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.
42. Resistor for regulating current.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
46. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
47. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
49. A salt or ester of boric acid.
50. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
52. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
53. (Roman mythology) God of love.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
59. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
60. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
64. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
69. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. Relating to or near the radius.
78. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
79. A resident of Arkansas.
81. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
82. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
83. Disclosing unintentionally.
84. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.

DOWN

1. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
2. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
5. The content of cognition.
6. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
7. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
8. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
9. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
10. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
11. Artificial and inferior.
12. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
13. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
14. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
22. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
24. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
27. An unofficial association of people or groups.
30. Sloping upward.
31. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
32. A short personal letter.
33. Castrate, used with animals.
35. English poet.
36. A gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws.
39. Any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as.
41. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
44. A port city in southwestern Iran.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
55. Informal terms for a mother.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
62. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
63. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
65. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
68. Having the slant of a bevel.
70. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
71. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
72. English monk and scholar (672-735).
75. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
76. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
77. Used of a single unit or thing.
80. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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