Crossword Puzzle Number 6292 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. An electrically charged particle.
16. A thief who grabs and runs.
17. The month following February and preceding April.
18. Grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands.
20. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
22. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
23. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. An ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor.
28. Divulge information or secrets.
30. A pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water.
33. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
37. A city in southwestern Poland on the Oder.
40. African mahogany trees.
41. A cgs unit of work or energy.
42. True firs.
46. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
47. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
50. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
53. (law) The party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred).
55. Humorously sarcastic or mocking.
56. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
58. Soft blue-gray mineral.
59. A German city near Leipzig.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. A covered passageway.
65. A widely distributed family of plants.
69. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
70. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
73. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
74. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
77. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
78. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
79. A great raja.
80. The chance to speak.

DOWN

1. A royal treasury.
2. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
3. Type genus of the Anatidae.
4. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
5. Black tropical American cuckoo.
6. An island of central Hawaii.
7. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
8. A state in southeastern United States.
9. The thick short innermost digit of the forelimb.
10. (formal) A person who announces important news.
11. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
21. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
26. A university in Connecticut.
27. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
29. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
31. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
32. The divine word of God.
34. United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947).
35. A glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions.
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. Treated with wax.
39. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
43. Offering little or no hope.
44. That is to say.
45. A city in South Vietnam.
48. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
51. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra.
52. A tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice.
54. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
57. Hungarian playwright (1878-1952).
60. Any plant of the genus Erica.
61. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
63. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
66. Informal terms for a meal.
67. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
68. Suggestive of the supernatural.
71. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
75. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
76. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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