Crossword Puzzle Number 6341 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. A shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits.
11. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
15. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
16. A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty.
17. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
18. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
19. (of snakes and eels) Naturally footless.
20. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
21. Small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted.
23. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
25. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
26. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
28. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
31. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
32. A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium).
35. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
40. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States.
42. Coming into existence.
46. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
49. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
50. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
52. King of France elected in 987 and founding the Capetian dynasty (940-996).
55. Moving very fast.
56. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
58. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
60. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
62. Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed.
64. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
68. A condition requiring relief.
71. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
75. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
76. The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting.
78. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
79. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
80. Playful in an appealingly bold way.
81. The cry made by sheep.

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1. (Japanese) A form of chess played on a board of 81 squares.
2. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
3. A light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally.
4. The part of a coal seam that is being cut.
5. Earnest or urgent request.
6. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
7. A state in midwestern United States.
8. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites).
9. A technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast).
10. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
11. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
22. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
24. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. The part of the face above the eyes.
33. Light teasing repartee.
34. Everything you own.
36. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
37. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
41. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
45. Used of certain religious orders who wear shoes.
47. The complete duration of something.
48. (British) Diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines (from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)).
51. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
53. Type genus of the Amiidae.
54. The nail at the end of a toe.
57. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
59. Any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols.
63. (used informally) Very small.
65. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
66. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
67. A Hindu prince or king in India.
69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
72. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
73. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
74. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
77. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.

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