Crossword Puzzle Number 6969 (Medium Grid)

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1. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
5. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended.
11. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
15. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
16. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
17. An informal term for a father.
18. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
20. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
21. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
22. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
23. A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position.
25. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
26. Deliberately arranged for effect.
28. A breeding ground for herons.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A small amount of liquid food.
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
41. Exaggerate one's acting.
46. The ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary.
49. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
50. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
51. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
52. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully.
54. A doctor's degree in religion.
56. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
58. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
61. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
62. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
66. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
68. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
69. Fiddler crabs.
70. Of or relating to an agent or agency.
74. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
75. The habitation of wild animals.
76. A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language.
77. Used of a single unit or thing.
78. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
79. Pose a threat to.
80. (British) Your grandmother.

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1. An alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk.
2. Upright in position or posture.
3. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
5. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
6. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
7. A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent.
8. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
9. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
10. Something done (usually as opposed to something said).
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
19. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
24. Half the width of an em.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A Hindu prince or king in India.
33. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
34. A mournful poem.
36. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
37. A beautiful and graceful girl.
38. (nautical) Of an anchor.
39. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
42. A difficult problem.
43. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
44. The unlimited 3-dimensional expanse in which everything is located.
45. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
47. That part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form.
48. Causing alarm or fear.
53. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
55. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
57. Put (things or places) in order.
59. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
64. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
65. Filled with a great quantity.
67. A circular segment of a curve.
71. (British) Informal term for information.
72. (informal) Of the highest quality.
73. (Irish) The sea personified.

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