Crossword Puzzle Number 1644 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
4. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
9. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
13. A city in north central Morocco.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. (combining form) Indicating radiation or radioactivity.
18. A French abbot.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. An armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band.
21. State in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.
23. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
24. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
25. A narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa.
27. First in order of birth.
31. Being one more than two.
32. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
41. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
42. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
44. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
45. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
46. Suitable to or characteristic of drama.
48. Very dark black.
49. The content of cognition.
50. Toward the mouth or oral region.
52. Being one more than one hundred.
56. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
57. A book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island.
60. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
61. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).
64. Stalk of a moss capsule.
65. A salt of any halogen acid.
66. (Greek mythology) King of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus.
67. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
70. Being nine more than ninety.
71. A state in New England.
72. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. A long-playing phonograph record.
81. African antelopes.
84. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
85. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
88. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
89. Flat crusty-bottomed onion roll.
91. Channel into a new direction.
93. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
94. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
95. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
96. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
97. (British) Your grandmother.
98. The cry made by sheep.
99. English monk and scholar (672-735).
100. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
101. Late time of life.

DOWN

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
3. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. Eastern subspecies of northern oriole.
6. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
7. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
8. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
9. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
10. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
12. Resembling a pea plant.
13. To run away.
14. Informal terms for a meal.
15. Singing jazz.
22. A state in New England.
26. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
28. Garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist.
29. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. Having or showing profound knowledge.
34. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
35. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
36. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
37. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
38. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
39. A substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease.
40. A member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India.
43. Without moral standards or principles.
47. Secured or held in place by tape.
51. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
53. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
58. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
59. A formal expression of praise.
62. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
63. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax.
73. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
74. Being nine more than ninety.
76. Any member of the genus Physa.
77. Satisfy (thirst).
78. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
79. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
80. A state in New England.
82. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
86. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
87. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
90. Having leadership guidance.
92. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.

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