Crossword Puzzle Number 6880 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. Genus of tropical or subtropical branching shrubs or trees.
12. An accountant certified by the state.
15. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
16. United States illustrator whose works present a sentimental idealized view of everyday life (1894-1978).
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
19. Be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc..
20. Any plant of the genus Erica.
21. Broadly or extravagantly humorous.
23. Being nine more than ninety.
25. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
26. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
27. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
30. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. Jordan's port.
39. A French abbot.
40. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
41. Southeastern Asian perennial with aromatic roots.
45. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. Of inferior or mixed breed.
51. 1 species.
53. Cause to be bitter or resentful.
55. In bed.
56. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704).
58. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
63. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
67. Capital and largest city of Italy.
69. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
72. The act of escaping physically.
74. A means of serving.
76. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
77. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
78. Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506).
80. A light touch or stroke.
81. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
82. A radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
2. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
3. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
4. The capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island.
5. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
6. The constellation that includes the southern celestial pole.
7. Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton.
8. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. Being nine more than forty.
11. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
12. Elegant and stylish.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
22. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
24. A set of rules or principles or laws especially written ones.
28. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
33. Small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots.
34. Made afraid.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. Isolated from others.
38. Type genus of the Anatidae.
42. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
43. Malicious burning to destroy property.
44. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
47. A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force.
48. (informal) Of the highest quality.
49. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
52. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
54. (informal) Exceptionally good.
57. A hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resin.
61. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
62. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
64. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
65. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
66. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
68. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
71. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
73. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
75. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
79. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.

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