Crossword Puzzle Number 1612 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. God of love and erotic desire.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. Being one more than two.
17. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
19. Type genus of the Majidae.
20. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
21. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
23. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
24. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
26. Possible to sell.
28. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
29. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
31. Someone who fights (or is fighting).
33. (anatomy) Not connected to the sternum or breastbone.
38. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
39. Arising from or going to the root.
40. An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC.
44. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
48. (of champagne) Extremely dry.
49. Composed of animal fat.
50. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
51. Placed crosswise.
52. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
54. A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
55. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
59. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
60. Direct in spatial dimensions.
61. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
62. Stalk of a moss capsule.
64. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
65. More of the same adv.
66. Someone who digs trenches.
71. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
72. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
73. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
74. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
77. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
79. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
82. To fix or set securely or deeply.
87. A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
89. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
91. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
92. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
93. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
95. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
96. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
97. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
98. Avatar of Vishnu.
99. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
100. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.

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1. A Loloish language.
2. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
3. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
4. Obscene terms for penis.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A place where taxis park while awaiting customers.
7. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
10. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
11. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
12. Work with in a non-serious manner.
13. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
14. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
15. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
22. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
25. One who helps or encourages or incites another.
27. 16 ounces.
30. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
32. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
34. One who practices magic or sorcery.
35. French neurologist (1857-1904).
36. Someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place.
37. Having a dusty purplish pink color.
41. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
42. (of speed) Having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level.
43. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
45. A card game for 2 players.
46. A centare is 1/100th of an are.
47. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
53. A state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border.
56. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
57. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
58. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
63. The brightest star in Scorpius.
64. Obscene terms for penis.
67. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
68. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
69. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
70. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
75. Time during which some action is awaited.
76. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
77. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
78. Having help.
79. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
80. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
81. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
83. God of death.
84. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
85. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
86. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses.
88. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
90. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
94. Before noon.

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