Crossword Puzzle Number 6873 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba.
11. Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness.
15. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
16. A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments.
17. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
18. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
20. A mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high).
21. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
22. Subdivision not used in some classifications.
24. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
26. A selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade name Prozac).
29. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
31. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
36. Of or relating or belonging to a city.
43. Living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite.
44. Of or relating to Gnosticism.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. Unable to relax or be still.
49. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
50. Imperfect development.
53. A genus of Bothidae.
55. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
56. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
58. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
59. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
60. A doctor's degree in optometry.
62. The capital of Nationalist China.
71. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
73. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
74. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
75. Any compound containing a chlorine atom.
77. The bill in a restaurant.
78. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
79. A great raja.
80. (Babylonian) The sky god.

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1. A formal dance held for a school class toward the end of the academic year.
2. Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles.
3. The skin that covers the top of the head.
4. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
5. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
6. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A written proposal or reminder.
9. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
10. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
11. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
12. Jordan's port.
13. Rotary motion of an object around its own axis.
14. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
19. A member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia.
23. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
25. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
27. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
28. An associate degree in nursing.
30. A fee charged for the use of pipes.
32. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
33. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
34. A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.
35. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
37. A distinctive emotional atmosphere.
38. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
39. Being two more than ninety.
40. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
41. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
42. Supported and operated by the government of a state.
45. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
48. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
51. A town in southwestern Idaho.
52. The wife of a sheik.
54. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
57. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
61. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
63. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
64. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
65. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
66. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
67. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
68. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
69. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
70. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
72. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
76. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.

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