Crossword Puzzle Number 6868 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
4. Born out of wedlock.
11. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
15. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia).
16. Any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates the production of antibodies.
17. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
20. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
21. United States mythologist (1904-1987).
24. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
27. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
29. A soft silvery metallic element.
31. Pungent fleshy edible root.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. (prefix) Within.
41. (informal) A crushing remark.
43. City recognized by the United States as the capital of the Ivory Coast.
45. A person's brother or sister.
46. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
48. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
49. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
51. A member of the North American Indian people of Oregon.
55. A thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings.
58. (poetic) "the orient sun" n 1.
60. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
63. German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969).
65. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
71. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
75. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
78. The residue that remains when something is burned.
79. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
80. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
81. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.

DOWN

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. The basic unit of money on Malta.
3. American Revolutionary patriot.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
6. Showing deterioration from age.
7. Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
10. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
11. Not softened by the addition of padding.
12. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
13. The top edge of a vessel.
14. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
22. A person to whom money is paid.
23. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
28. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
32. Cause injuries or bodily harm to.
33. A medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase.
34. Not disposed to cheat or defraud.
36. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
37. (informal) Of the highest quality.
38. Building material used as siding or roofing.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
42. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
44. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
47. A woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter.
50. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
52. United States feminist (born in 1934).
53. A short personal letter.
54. Cause a floating log to rotate by treading.
56. The fifth day of the week.
57. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
59. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
61. Commodities offered for sale.
62. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
64. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
66. The act of scanning.
68. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
69. Flat tableland with steep edges.
70. Pale gray.
72. Of southern Europe.
73. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
77. Being nine more than ninety.

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