Crossword Puzzle Number 686 (Medium Grid)

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1. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
12. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. (trademark) A thermosetting plastic used as electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc..
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
20. Right-hand page.
21. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
22. At or constituting a border or edge.
23. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
25. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended.
27. Made of fir or pine.
28. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
30. A state in midwestern United States.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
43. 10 grams.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
48. Growing in two parts or in pairs.
50. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. Basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle.
56. Type genus of the Balaenidae.
59. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
60. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
66. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
69. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
71. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
72. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
74. Lose blood from one's body.
76. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
77. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
78. Under a curse.
80. How long something has existed.
81. Being of the age 13 through 19.
82. Have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill.
83. A local computer network for communication between computers.

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1. Secured or held in place by tape.
2. Not carefully or expertly made.
3. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
6. A state in northwestern North America.
7. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
8. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
9. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
10. A protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers.
11. Ancient name for the coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos).
12. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
19. A loose cloak with a hood.
24. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
32. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
35. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
36. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
38. Any plant of the genus Erica.
39. Obvious and dull.
41. Being three more than fifty.
42. Before noon.
45. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
47. Become wider.
49. A native American tent.
51. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
55. A support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute).
57. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
58. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
61. (anatomy) A depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ.
62. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
63. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
64. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
65. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
67. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
68. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
70. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
73. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
75. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
79. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.

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