Crossword Puzzle Number 17 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
4. Largest crested screamer.
9. (British slang) Cafe.
13. A Spanish title of respect for a gentleman or nobleman.
16. Seed of a pea plant.
17. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
18. A slender double-reed instrument.
19. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
21. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
23. (British) A member of the military police.
25. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
27. Not done.
29. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
30. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
32. 100 pesewas equal 1 cedi.
33. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
37. The compass point that is one point west of northwest.
40. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
41. The act of scanning.
43. The small projection of a mammary gland.
45. A state in New England.
46. The literary culture.
48. God of love and erotic desire.
49. Any of several large shaggy-maned humped bovids having large heads and short horns.
51. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. The fur of the North American racoon.
56. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
58. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
60. Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India.
61. (nautical) Fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc).
63. Growing old.
64. Any high mountain.
65. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
66. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
76. Ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side.
79. Informal terms for a meal.
80. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended.
83. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
87. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
91. Being one more than two.
92. A sudden short attack.
93. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
95. Food for domestic livestock.
96. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
97. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
98. Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed.
99. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. Heal or recover.
3. An agenda of things to do.
4. A deep fissure.
5. Capital of the state of Montana.
6. How long something has existed.
7. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
8. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
9. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. Realize beforehand.
12. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
13. Remove the claws from (a cat).
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
15. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction.
26. Ending in a sharp point.
28. A sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators.
31. The seventh month of the civil year.
34. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
35. A knapsack (usually for a soldier).
36. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
38. A borough of New York City.
39. Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba.
42. Jordan's port.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. Large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
55. The month following July and preceding September.
57. A twilled woolen fabric.
59. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
62. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
67. Free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms.
68. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
69. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
70. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
71. Of or containing nitrogen.
72. Before noon.
73. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
74. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
75. 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.
77. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
78. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
81. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
82. Express or utter with a hiss.
84. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
85. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
86. A quantity of no importance.
88. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
89. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
90. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
94. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
95. 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.

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