Crossword Puzzle Number 1608 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
4. A written order directing a bank to pay money.
9. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
13. Characteristic of a mob.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
18. Type genus of the Amiidae.
19. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
20. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
22. Using speech rather than writing.
23. A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.
24. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
25. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
27. A genus of Falconidae.
29. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
31. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
33. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
35. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
37. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
39. A pair of people who live together.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
47. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
48. The female reproductive cell.
50. Spider crabs.
51. Showily imitative of art or artists.
52. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
54. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
55. A small notebook for rough notes.
57. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
59. A state in midwestern United States.
61. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
63. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
64. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
65. Jordan's port.
67. A city in northeastern Ohio.
69. Combining form.
71. The act of using.
73. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
74. Abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation).
78. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
80. The eighth month of the civil year.
81. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
83. Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India.
86. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
89. Talk indistinctly.
92. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
93. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
94. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
96. A skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer).
98. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
99. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
100. A rounded projection or protuberance.
101. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
102. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
103. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
104. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
105. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
106. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

DOWN

1. A homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Echo repeatedly, echo again and again.
4. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
5. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
6. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
7. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
8. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.
9. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
10. Someone with an assured and ingratiating manner.
11. A resource.
12. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
13. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. English monk and scholar (672-735).
21. Microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica.
26. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
28. The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
30. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
32. Any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia.
36. Someone who assaults others sexually.
38. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
40. A salt used especially in baking powder.
41. The alimentary canal (especially of an embryo or a coelenterate).
42. A colorless oily liquid.
45. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
46. A genus of Platalea.
49. Not hallowed or consecrated.
53. Extremely pleasing.
56. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
58. A cephalosporin that can be given parenterally (trade name Zinacef) or orally by tablets (trade name Ceftin).
60. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
62. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
66. State in northeastern India.
68. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
70. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
72. The male ruler of an empire.
73. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
75. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
76. A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord.
77. A large fleet.
79. A small nut.
82. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
84. Of or pertaining to the branch of Shinto recognized as the state religion of Japan.
85. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
87. In bed.
88. A quantity of no importance.
90. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
91. A narrow way or road.
95. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
97. A master's degree in business.

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