Crossword Puzzle Number 1623 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A twist or aberration.
5. Divulge information or secrets.
9. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
13. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. American novelist (1909-1955).
17. Characterized by rising prices.
18. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
19. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
20. (prefix) Across or crossing or on the opposite side.
22. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
24. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. Worthy of high praise.
29. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
32. A fraudulent business scheme.
33. Someone who insists on something.
37. A long-playing phonograph record.
39. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
43. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
44. A commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido.
46. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
47. Type genus of the Adelgidae.
49. A desert in central Asia.
51. By bad luck.
52. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
53. The 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
56. To a meager degree or in a meager manner.
58. A monastery of friars.
61. A crime syndicate in the United States.
63. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
64. A cadenced trot executed by the horse in one spot.
65. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people.
66. A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence.
68. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
69. Wear away.
72. Being one more than one.
73. Any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures.
76. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
77. A state of confusion and disorderliness.
79. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
80. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
81. Avatar of Vishnu.
83. A primeval personification of air and breath.
89. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
92. Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet.
94. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
95. Lessen the intensity of.
96. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
97. European food fish.
99. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
101. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
102. Free from liquid or moisture.
103. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
104. A small cake leavened with yeast.
105. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
106. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

DOWN

1. Telephone line (Wide Area Telephone Service).
2. A city in northern India.
3. A large quantity of written matter.
4. A small pennant borne on a lance.
5. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
6. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
9. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
10. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
11. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
12. A doctor's degree in optometry.
13. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
14. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
15. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
21. A branch of the Tai languages.
23. Arranged in or consisting of laminae.
26. A business whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state.
28. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
30. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
31. Beat severely with a whip or rod.
34. Freetail bats.
35. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
36. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
38. A person to whom a promise is made.
40. Remove or make invisible.
41. Semi-parasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers.
42. Type genus of the Dasyatidae.
45. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
48. A releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body.
50. A state in midwestern United States.
54. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
55. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
57. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
60. Not only so, but.
62. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.
67. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair.
70. A state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer.
71. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. Pay for something before receiving it.
75. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
78. Imperial moths.
79. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
82. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
84. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
85. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
86. A telephone connection.
87. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
88. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
89. Fiddler crabs.
90. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
91. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
93. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
98. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
100. A Russian river.

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