Crossword Puzzle Number 4605 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A case for containing a set of articles.
4. Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar.
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. Attain success or reach a goal.
17. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
18. A pike fitted with an ax head.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
22. Discover the location of.
25. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
26. Repeated too often.
28. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
30. Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
33. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
40. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
42. An act that exploits or victimizes someone.
45. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
47. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
48. Not ever.
49. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
50. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
51. Administer an oil or ointment to.
52. A city in northern India.
55. The state of existing and being localized in space.
57. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
59. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
63. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
64. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
71. A town of Denmark in north central Jutland.
74. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
76. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
77. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
78. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
81. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
82. A worker engaged in making steel.
83. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.

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1. A cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
4. A genus of Bothidae.
5. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere.
6. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
7. One million periods per second.
8. Not only so, but.
9. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
12. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. A vigorous blow.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
24. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
27. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
32. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
34. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
35. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
38. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
39. Used of persons or behavior.
41. Obvious and dull.
43. Sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae.
44. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
46. (Irish) The sea personified.
53. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
54. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
56. A state in midwestern United States.
58. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
60. The amount a salary is increased.
61. To fix or set securely or deeply.
62. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
65. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
66. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
68. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
69. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
70. A city in northwestern Syria.
72. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
73. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
75. (British) Your grandmother.
79. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.

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