Crossword Puzzle Number 1689 (Large Grid)

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1. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
4. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
9. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
13. The residue that remains when something is burned.
16. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
17. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
18. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. A squeaking sound.
22. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
24. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
25. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
26. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
33. Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926).
35. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
37. Of or involving the rectum.
41. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
42. The brightest star in Scorpius.
46. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
47. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
48. Black tropical American cuckoo.
49. The outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
54. A telegram sent abroad.
55. A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth.
58. Discrimination in favor of the able-bodied.
59. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
60. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
61. An internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider).
62. An active and efficient cause.
63. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
64. Flowing in drops.
67. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
68. United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932).
72. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
74. An awkward stupid person.
75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
76. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
78. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
82. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
84. Squash bugs.
87. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
88. Relating to or consisting of or being in water.
91. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
92. To some (great or small) extent.
93. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
95. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
96. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
97. Formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water.
98. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
99. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.

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1. Make an etching of.
2. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
3. A city in southeastern FRance on the Isere River.
4. A geographical area and former kingdom in northeastern India in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and Bhutan.
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
6. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants.
7. Money in the form of bills or coins.
8. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
9. A public promotion of some product or service.
10. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
11. A person who habitually pretends to be something he is not.
12. 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.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
15. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
21. The first light of day.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
29. American novelist (1909-1955).
30. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
32. Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.
34. A member of the Democratic Party.
36. A palace and fortress built in Granada by the Moslems in the Middle Ages.
38. Having or denoting a high range.
39. A commercial airplane that carries passengers.
40. Mourned or grieved for.
43. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
44. Incapable of or resistant to bending.
45. Morally degraded.
51. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
52. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
53. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
56. Goddess of fertility.
57. 100 lepta equal 1 drachma.
63. A geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam.
65. The second largest city in Tunisia.
66. The cry made by sheep.
69. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
70. A sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators.
71. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
73. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
74. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
77. A genus of Ploceidae.
79. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
80. An elaborate song for solo voice.
81. United States actor who performed with his wife Lynn Fontanne in many stage productions (1893-1977).
83. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
84. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
85. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
86. A Loloish language.
89. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
90. God of the earth.
94. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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