Crossword Puzzle Number 5687 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A loud harsh or strident noise.
4. A collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity).
11. Again but in a new or different way.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. Proboscis monkeys.
17. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
18. An unforeseen obstacle.
19. Relating to or having the characteristics on an icon.
20. Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson).
21. With a forward motion.
23. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
25. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
26. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
28. Exultantly proud and joyful.
31. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
38. A native American tent.
41. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
43. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
45. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
46. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
47. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Any of various units of capacity.
53. A percussion instrument consisting of vertical metal tubes of different lengths that are struck with a hammer.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
56. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
58. A person who is abnormally small.
60. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
61. A city in northern India.
63. Spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.
65. Type genus of the Anatidae.
68. Evergreen shrubs of north temperate regions.
70. A doctor's degree in music.
74. Spread or daub over.
77. The exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money.
79. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
80. The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques.
83. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
84. An informal term for a father.
85. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
86. A unit of pain intensity.

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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
3. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
4. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
5. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
6. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
7. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
8. Selected as the best.
9. An electrically charged particle built up from polymeric molecules or ions and occurring in certain colloidal electrolytic solutions like soaps and detergents.
10. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
11. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
12. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
13. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
14. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
22. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. The act of swimming.
29. The bill in a restaurant.
30. Very dark black.
33. Coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food).
34. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
36. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
37. European shad.
39. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
40. A green transparent form of beryl.
42. The capital of Morocco.
44. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
48. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
50. (formal) Ordinary and not refined.
51. Point of contact between two objects or parts.
57. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
59. A white trivalent metallic element.
62. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
64. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
66. Type genus of the Nepidae.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
69. Morally bad or wrong.
71. Moderate in type or degree or effect or force.
72. Beyond what is natural.
73. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
75. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
76. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
78. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
81. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
82. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.

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