Crossword Puzzle Number 1429 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A boy or man.
5. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
9. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
13. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
16. Being here now.
17. In bed.
18. Similar or related in quality or character.
19. A resource.
20. Toward the mouth or oral region.
21. (usually plural) A destructive action.
23. A special loved one.
25. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
27. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
29. Characteristic of false pride.
30. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
33. (British) A recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports.
35. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
42. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
45. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
46. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
49. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
51. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
52. Any plant of the genus Erica.
56. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
57. An African river.
58. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.
61. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
64. Transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.
65. A floor covering.
67. A path set aside for walking.
70. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
71. A book of the New Testament.
72. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
74. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
75. Relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land.
77. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
79. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
80. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
85. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
89. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
90. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
92. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
94. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
95. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
97. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
98. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
99. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
100. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
101. English monk and scholar (672-735).
102. Make amends for.
103. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

DOWN

1. Colloquial British abbreviation.
2. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
3. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South and Central America.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Rate of revolution of a motor.
8. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
9. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
10. A state in northwestern North America.
11. Some point in the air.
12. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
13. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
14. Being one more than seven.
15. Chief port of Yemen.
22. A humorous anecdote or remark.
24. A statement asserting the existence or the truth of something.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
31. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
32. A city and port in northern Jutland.
34. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
36. An extinct Semitic language of northern Syria.
37. The property characteristic of old age.
38. An ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers.
39. Component consisting of a side piece opposite the moldboard.
40. Slow down by moving the tail sideways.
43. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
44. The content of cognition.
47. Intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence.
48. A member of the British order of honor.
50. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
53. Annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa.
54. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
55. Look at with amorous intentions.
59. The square of a body of any size of type.
60. Of or involving the rectum.
66. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
69. The phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation.
70. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
73. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
74. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
76. Render capable or able for some task.
78. Jordan's port.
81. A French abbot.
82. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
83. The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal).
84. A city in northern India.
86. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
87. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
88. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
91. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
93. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
94. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
96. A white trivalent metallic element.
97. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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