Crossword Puzzle Number 6871 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. A major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation.
12. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms.
17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. Joining or attaching by stitches.
20. (sports) Someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States.
25. United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926).
26. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
28. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
30. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
32. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
35. Either extremity of something that has length.
38. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
41. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
44. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
46. Morning glory.
48. A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta.
49. Black tropical American cuckoo.
50. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
51. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
53. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
55. A young pig.
58. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
60. The content of cognition.
61. (Irish) War goddess.
64. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
65. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
66. A city in southeastern South Korea.
67. Toward the mouth or oral region.
69. A person who is interned.
72. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
76. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
77. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
80. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
81. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
82. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
84. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
85. Type genus of the Majidae.
86. Any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers.
87. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.

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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
3. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
4. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
5. A city in northwestern Syria.
6. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
7. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
8. A language group of the Hokan family.
9. Present reasons and arguments.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
12. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
13. Belonging to some prior time.
14. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
21. Be or do something to a greater degree.
23. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
27. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
29. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
31. The Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
33. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
34. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. Coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood.
37. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
39. Conveying information to the muscles from the CNS.
42. The compass point that is one point west of southwest.
43. A member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock.
45. A genus of Ploceidae.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
52. An indirect (and usually malicious) implication.
54. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
56. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
57. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
59. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
62. Any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind.
63. How long something has existed.
68. Jordan's port.
70. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
71. Tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers.
73. The female reproductive cell.
74. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
75. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
78. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
79. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
83. The square of a body of any size of type.

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