Crossword Puzzle Number 1046 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
4. An inlaid furniture decoration.
8. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
12. A thin coat of water-base paint.
16. Of inferior or mixed breed.
17. An endorsement.
18. Similar to the color of jade.
19. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
20. Be going to.
22. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
24. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
25. An inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death.
27. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
29. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
31. A body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral.
33. (all used chiefly with qualifiers `well' or `poorly' or `un-') Having received specific instruction.
36. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
39. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
40. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
42. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. An official at a baseball game.
47. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
50. The foot of a human being.
51. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
53. A place where the wicked are punished after death.
56. Fill with high spirits.
58. A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
61. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
62. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
63. Used at the dining table.
64. A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
65. A town in south central Washington.
68. An extreme state of adversity.
70. A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances.
71. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
74. Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955.
76. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
80. Being nine more than ninety.
82. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
83. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
87. Asian rat snakes.
91. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
92. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
95. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
97. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
98. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
99. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
100. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
101. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
102. Late time of life.
103. A clan identified by their kinship to a common totemic object.
104. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
105. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.

DOWN

1. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
2. Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967).
3. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
4. Music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance.
5. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
6. Common Old World heath represented by many varieties.
7. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
8. A mythical Greek hero.
9. Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.
10. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
11. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
12. Supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak.
13. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
14. Any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway.
15. The emotion of hate.
21. United States film actor (born in Hungary) noted for portraying monsters (1884-1956).
23. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
26. (used especially of meats) Preserved in salt.
28. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
30. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
32. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
34. Any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers.
35. A loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen.
37. Rich and superior in quality.
38. A town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico.
41. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
43. Marked by utter benignity.
46. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
48. A woman sahib.
49. A deficiency of red blood cells.
52. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
54. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
55. A defamatory or abusive word or phrase.
57. A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong.
59. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
60. (informal) Roused to anger.
66. French politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932).
67. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
69. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
72. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
73. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
75. The capital of the state of Kansas.
77. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
78. Closed with a lace.
81. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
85. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
86. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
88. Noisy talk.
89. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
90. The muscular back part of the shank.
93. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
94. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
96. Being one hundred more than two hundred.

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