Crossword Puzzle Number 1580 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. A battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.
9. At a previous time.
13. The unit of frequency.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
19. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A plant hormone that promotes root formation and bud growth.
22. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
23. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. Kill in large numbers.
29. Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614).
30. German hero.
32. A vigorous blow.
35. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
38. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).
43. American dramatist (1928- ).
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys.
49. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
50. The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave.
52. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
53. Common gray wild goose of Europe.
55. Range of what one can know or understand.
56. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
59. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
60. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
62. Be compatible or in accordance with.
63. The 11 southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
65. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
66. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
68. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
70. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
74. A Mid-Atlantic state.
75. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
76. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
78. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
80. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
82. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
88. Filled with or marked by tears.
90. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
91. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
92. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
93. Sour or bitter in taste.
95. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
96. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
97. A rapid bustling commotion.
98. Greek mythology.
99. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
100. The capital and largest city of Japan.
101. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.

DOWN

1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
5. Smeared with something that soils or stains.
6. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
7. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
8. (of speed) Having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level.
9. A genus of Mustelidae.
10. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
11. Mark as different.
12. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
13. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
14. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. Tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit.
27. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
28. Easy to handle or use or manage.
31. A master's degree in business.
33. A long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume.
34. A unit of force equal to 1000 newtons.
36. Relating to abdominal delivery.
37. To a meager degree or in a meager manner.
39. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
40. A Hindu prince or king in India.
41. Being one more than fifty.
42. Dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who who they are and leaves home to creates a new life.
44. A member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi.
47. Australian clover fern.
48. A form of address for a man.
51. From that place or from there.
54. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
61. A worker who attaches something by nailing it.
64. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
67. An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice.
68. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
69. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
70. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
71. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
72. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
73. Of or relating to or resembling the eye.
79. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
80. Half the width of an em.
81. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
83. A city in northwestern Syria.
84. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
85. South African term for `boss'.
86. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
87. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
89. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
94. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.

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