Crossword Puzzle Number 4698 (Medium Grid)

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1. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
5. Active gray titmice of western North America.
12. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
15. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
16. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife.
17. A boy or man.
18. A fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance.
19. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
20. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
21. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
22. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
24. Type genus of the Gavidae.
26. Lower in esteem.
28. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
30. Independent in behavior or thought.
33. A fervent and even militant proponent of something.
37. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
38. The physical property of something that has lost its elasticity.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
44. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
45. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. A person forced to flee from home or country.
49. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
51. Vietnamese New Year.
52. A binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element.
53. United States athlete who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon (born in 1930).
55. An associate degree in nursing.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
59. Small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits.
63. (`lief' is archaic) Very willing.
65. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
69. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
74. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
75. African antelopes.
78. The cry made by sheep.
79. Armor plate that protects the chest.
80. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
81. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
82. A Russian river.
83. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
84. A light touch or stroke.

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1. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
2. Humble request for help.
3. By bad luck.
4. (Old Testament) The guardian archangel of the Jews.
5. A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot.
6. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
7. Sharp piercing cry.
8. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
9. Considerate and solicitous care.
10. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
11. Provided with or resembling a tongue.
12. Speaking a Slavic language.
13. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
14. The content of cognition.
23. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
25. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
27. A small nail.
29. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
31. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir.
34. Round flat seed of the lentil plant.
35. Relating to bone or to the skeleton.
36. Blood-sucking African fly.
39. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
42. The probability of a specified outcome.
43. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
47. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
50. Your general store of remembered information.
54. Someone who practices homosexuality.
57. Type genus of the Alcedinidae.
58. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
60. At full speed.
61. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
62. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
64. Bringing death.
66. A feeling of intense anger.
67. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
68. Chief port of Yemen.
70. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. In bed.
72. Avatar of Vishnu.
73. Material used to daub walls.
76. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
77. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.

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