Crossword Puzzle Number 1579 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
4. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
16. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
17. A city of central China.
18. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
19. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
20. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
21. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
23. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
25. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
27. Go on board.
29. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
30. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
32. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
33. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
35. In an unenthusiastically lukewarm manner.
38. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
40. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
44. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
45. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
46. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
47. Belonging to some prior time.
48. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
53. Undo the ties of.
54. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
55. Pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point.
57. Not divisible by two.
58. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
60. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.
62. A state in midwestern United States.
64. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
66. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
67. (informal) Of the highest quality.
68. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
71. Acting by absorption through the skin.
72. A student who studies excessively.
76. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
77. A fibrous amphibole.
80. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
82. Jordan's port.
85. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
87. State in northeastern India.
91. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
93. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
95. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
96. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
97. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
100. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
102. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
103. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
104. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
105. Flat and uninspiring.
106. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.

DOWN

1. Obscene terms for feces.
2. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
3. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
4. Go beyond.
5. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
6. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
7. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
8. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
9. The sixth month of the civil year.
10. A subfamily of Altaic languages.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Either of the two main stops on a pipe organ.
13. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
14. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
15. The content of cognition.
22. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
24. Liquid excretory product.
26. Mongolian wild ass.
28. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
31. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
34. The residue that remains when something is burned.
36. A quality of refined gracefulness and good taste.
37. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
39. Term not used technically.
41. Agarics with pink spores but lacking both volva and annulus (includes some that are poisonous).
42. Having or being characterized by acidosis.
43. Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down.
49. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
52. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
56. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
59. An associate degree in nursing.
61. Befitting or characteristic of a young girl.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
69. Lively and spirited.
70. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
73. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
74. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
75. A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.
78. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
79. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
81. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
83. God of love and erotic desire.
84. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
86. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
88. United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914).
89. Again but in a new or different way.
90. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
92. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
94. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
98. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
99. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
101. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
102. A male human offspring.

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