Crossword Puzzle Number 6887 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
5. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
11. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
15. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
16. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
17. A shade of blue tinged with green.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. Reach, make, or come to a decision about something.
20. Lacking sensation.
21. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
22. (informal) Of the highest quality.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. The 2nd longest European river.
29. (botany) Especially of leaves.
30. A city is southern Alberta.
34. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
35. The act working too much or too long.
38. A native-born Israeli.
42. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
43. A decree that prohibits something.
44. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
49. Belonging to some prior time.
52. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
53. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
54. A master's degree in religion.
55. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
56. 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.
59. An affirmative.
61. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
64. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
66. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
67. Highly excited.
71. A festival featuring African-American culture.
74. Before noon.
75. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
76. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
77. Fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses.
80. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
81. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
82. A deep bow.
83. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
2. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
3. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. Produced by a manufacturing process.
6. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
7. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
8. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
9. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
10. A small hard fruit.
11. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
12. Type genus of the Equidae.
13. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
14. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
23. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
26. Lower in esteem.
27. Any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
28. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
31. Someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly.
32. The father of your father or mother.
33. Any loose flowing garment.
36. A small natural hill.
37. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
39. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
40. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
41. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
45. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
48. Reflecting gloom.
50. A tributary of the Missouri River.
51. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
57. The square of a body of any size of type.
58. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
60. A person who keeps watch over something or someone.
62. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
63. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
65. The basic unit of money in China.
68. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
69. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
70. Offering fun and gaiety.
72. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
73. An associate degree in applied science.
78. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
79. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.

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