Crossword Puzzle Number 696 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
4. The state of being out of favor.
12. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
15. Liquid excretory product.
16. Any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103.
17. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
18. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
19. A garment worn by women in ancient Greece.
20. A genus of Platalea.
22. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
25. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
26. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
28. A motley assortment of things.
30. A white trivalent metallic element.
32. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
33. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
34. Employed in accomplishing something.
38. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
40. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
43. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
44. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
45. Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers.
47. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
49. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
50. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
51. Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree.
53. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
58. Anything that serves as an enticement.
59. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
60. The father of your father or mother.
63. Bringing death.
65. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
66. The time that has elapsed.
67. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
69. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
72. The fur of a rabbit.
76. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
79. The handle of a weapon or tool.
82. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
83. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
84. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
85. A light touch or stroke.
86. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
87. A person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle).
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A bluish shade of green.
3. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
4. A small contrasting part of something.
5. Water frozen in the solid state.
6. Standard temperature and pressure.
7. Related to or having filaments especially across a field of view.
8. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
9. (combining form) Having a face or visage as specified.
10. A doctor's degree in optometry.
11. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
12. A fraudulent business scheme.
13. Soft creamy white cheese.
14. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
21. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
23. Beer brewed for immediate consumption.
27. The ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
29. A alloy of tin with some copper and antimony.
31. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
35. Lean end of the neck.
36. Render capable or able for some task.
37. An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole.
39. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
41. Before noon.
42. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
46. Not often.
48. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
52. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
54. Pertaining to the purchase of insurance policies from terminally ill policy holders.
55. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
61. An antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State.
62. Remove or make invisible.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
68. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
70. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
71. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
73. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
74. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America.
75. The back side of the neck.
77. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
78. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
80. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
81. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.

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