Crossword Puzzle Number 690 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. United States baseball player (born in 1931).
5. A tangible and visible entity.
11. Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive.
15. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
16. Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family.
17. A characteristic sound.
18. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
19. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
21. A stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. French philosopher and theologian.
28. Of or in or relating to the nose.
31. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
45. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
46. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
47. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
50. Being in competition.
51. An uproarious party.
52. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
54. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
55. Water frozen in the solid state.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
63. The ending of a series or sequence.
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
71. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
72. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
74. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
75. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
76. An obsolete kind of container used for distillation.
79. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
80. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
81. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
82. An affirmative.

DOWN

1. Occurring widely (as to many people).
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. United States baseball player (born 1925).
4. God of war.
5. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
6. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
7. A large bottle with a narrow mouth.
8. An implement used to erase something.
9. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
10. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
11. The father of your father or mother.
12. Water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs.
13. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
14. Armor plate that protects the chest.
20. (Irish) The sea personified.
22. Relating to or lying near the palate.
23. An awkward stupid person.
26. A flexible container with a single opening.
27. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
29. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
30. Attempt by employing effort.
33. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
34. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
35. English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820).
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
39. Before noon.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A blind god.
43. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
44. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
48. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Voltaren) that is administered only orally.
49. Someone who operates an aircraft.
53. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
56. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
57. Wish harm upon.
59. In an unnatural eery manner.
60. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
62. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
65. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
68. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
69. The basic unit of money in Botswana.
70. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
73. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
77. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
78. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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