Crossword Puzzle Number 6988 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. (medical) An absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells.
12. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
15. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. A colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins.
17. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
18. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
19. Of or relating to the ancient city of Troy or its inhabitants.
20. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
33. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
36. A humorous anecdote or remark.
37. The cry made by sheep.
39. Admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding.
46. Not divisible by two.
47. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
48. The sacred city of Lamaism.
49. South African shrub having flat acuminate leaves and yellow flowers.
51. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
53. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
54. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
55. Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason.
58. Made warm or hot.
62. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
64. An appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips.
66. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
70. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
72. A doctor's degree in music.
73. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
74. Any of various mostly giant tropical lianas of Africa and Madagascar having greenish or purple flowers and long smooth pods.
78. Either extremity of something that has length.
79. Relating to or characterized by basidia.
82. A decree that prohibits something.
83. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
84. Any ameba of the genus Endamoeba.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Traveling by foot.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
4. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
5. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.
6. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
7. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
8. Using speech rather than writing.
9. An atom having a valence of one.
10. Not out.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
13. Enthusiastic approval.
14. City in Sudan.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. The sound made by corvine birds.
28. The basic unit of money in Romania.
29. Belief in a kind of sorcery that originated in Africa and is practiced in the West Indies.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
34. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
35. (prefix) Within.
38. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
40. A state in the eastern United States.
41. The quality of being united into one.
42. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
43. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
44. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
45. A lyric poet.
50. The innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel).
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. 1 species.
57. Wild and menacing.
59. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
60. The square of a body of any size of type.
61. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
63. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
65. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
67. Jordan's port.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
71. A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea.
75. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
76. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
77. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
80. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
81. That is to say.

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