Crossword Puzzle Number 2698 (Medium Grid)

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1. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. A South African movie theater.
12. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Someone who spends money to purchase goods or services.
17. The basic unit of money in Romania.
18. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. Typical geese.
22. Disconnect or separate.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
25. Having relatively few calories.
26. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
27. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
29. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. Crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings.
38. Type genus of the Manidae.
41. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
42. A lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium.
46. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
49. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
50. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
51. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
52. Australian wild horse.
55. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
58. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
59. God of love and erotic desire.
60. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
63. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
66. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
70. Cause to be embarrassed.
74. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
76. Greek mythology.
77. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
78. Oldest known reptiles.
80. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
81. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
82. A great raja.
83. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.

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1. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
2. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
3. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
4. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
5. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
6. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
7. Of or relating to or like or in the manner of the Roman Seneca.
8. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
9. United States playwright (1906-1963).
10. Treated with chemicals to make it curly.
11. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
12. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
13. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
14. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).
19. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
21. Involving the entire earth.
23. A public square with room for pedestrians.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
33. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
35. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
37. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
39. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
40. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
43. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
44. Toward the mouth or oral region.
45. Found along western Atlantic coast.
47. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
48. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
53. Jordan's port.
54. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
56. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral).
57. The 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites.
61. Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen.
62. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
64. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
67. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
68. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
69. Type genus of the Majidae.
71. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
72. Stalk of a moss capsule.
73. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
75. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
79. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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