Crossword Puzzle Number 1177 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The month following September and preceding November.
4. A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water.
8. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
12. Point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch).
16. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
17. Continuing or remaining in a place or state.
18. The sixth month of the civil year.
19. Belonging to some prior time.
20. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
21. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.
22. More or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A port city in southwestern Iran.
27. Any cohesive unit such as a military company.
29. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
31. A light touch or stroke.
32. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
33. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
38. Dwell (archaic).
41. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
45. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
46. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
47. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
49. A Spanish title of respect for a gentleman or nobleman.
50. English essayist (1775-1834).
51. Expel, as of gases and odors.
53. Colloquial British abbreviation.
56. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
57. Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895).
59. Type genus of the Otariidae.
61. A native-born Israeli.
63. To fix or set securely or deeply.
64. Related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain.
65. A step in walking or running.
66. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
69. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
72. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
73. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
74. Goddess of fate.
76. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
78. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
82. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
85. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
87. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
89. A branch of the Tai languages.
90. Ancient city southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius.
91. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
94. A master's degree in business.
95. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
96. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
98. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
99. Tag the base runner to get him out.
100. Avatar of Vishnu.
101. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
102. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
103. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
3. To an excessive degree.
4. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
5. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
6. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
7. Type genus of the Hylidae.
8. Covered with paving material.
9. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
10. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
11. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
12. Look down on with disdain.
13. Oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them.
14. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
15. Partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water.
25. Become soft or disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking.
28. Fiddler crabs.
30. Being one more than one hundred.
34. The mints.
35. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
36. A fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt by Scottish Highlanders.
37. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
39. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high).
40. A language of Australian aborigines.
42. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
43. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
44. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
52. Increase by a factor of three.
54. A member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Ural mountains).
55. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
58. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
60. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
62. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
67. (British) A person who has the right to be considered legally a British citizen (by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent).
68. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
70. Antibacterial consisting of any of several synthetic organic compounds capable of inhibiting the growth of bacteria that require PABA.
71. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
75. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
76. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
77. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
79. A genus of Lamnidae.
80. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
81. Jordan's port.
83. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
84. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
86. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
87. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
88. Being one more than seven.
92. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
93. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
97. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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