Crossword Puzzle Number 1365 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. Tastelessly showy.
9. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
13. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
18. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
19. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
20. The residue that remains when something is burned.
21. A relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas.
22. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
23. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
25. Leafless East Indian vine.
26. An informal term for a father.
28. Term of address for a man.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A characteristic sound.
32. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
34. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
40. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
41. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
45. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
49. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
52. Type and sole genus of the family Menuridae.
53. A mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers).
55. An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea.
58. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
59. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
61. A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
63. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
64. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
65. Being nine more than forty.
66. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
67. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
68. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
69. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
70. A villainous Jew in Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist".
73. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
74. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
77. Obtained from various tropical plants.
78. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
80. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
82. Largest known toad species.
84. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
88. Lyrebirds and scrubbirds.
91. A fraudulent business scheme.
93. A branch of the Tai languages.
94. A doctor's degree in education.
95. Of or relating to the velum.
98. Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground.
100. A master's degree in business.
101. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
102. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
103. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
104. Tag the base runner to get him out.
105. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
106. United States educator who founded the first private school for Black students in Augusta, Georgia (1854-1933).
107. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
108. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
5. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
6. A theatrical performer.
7. German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918).
8. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
9. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. Toward the mouth or oral region.
12. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
13. Not functioning properly.
14. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
15. Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
24. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
30. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
33. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
35. Pronounce with a lowered velum.
36. Old World herbs and subshrubs.
37. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
38. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
39. Avatar of Vishnu.
42. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
43. Breathing in.
44. A young horse.
46. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
47. Brass that looks like gold.
48. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
54. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
56. Any small branched yellow-flowered North American herb of the genus Krigia.
57. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
60. Conforming to truth.
62. A Hindu prince or king in India.
68. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
71. A state in northwestern North America.
72. (British) Common sense.
75. Daughter of Nehru who served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984).
76. Immature of its kind.
79. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
81. English monk and scholar (672-735).
82. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
83. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
85. A genus of Lamnidae.
86. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
87. Jordan's port.
89. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
90. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
92. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
96. Used of a single unit or thing.
97. A column of light (as from a beacon).
99. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.

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