Crossword Puzzle Number 1759 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
8. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
12. The mother of your father or mother.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
18. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
19. Make anew.
20. The sign language used in the United States.
21. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
22. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
23. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
24. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
26. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
28. Having a difficult and contrary disposition.
30. Not genuine.
32. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
34. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
35. Remove completely from recognition or memory.
37. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
40. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
43. Being one more than fifty.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. Cut off the testicles.
48. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
49. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
51. An inhabitant of the earth.
55. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
57. Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel).
59. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
60. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
63. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
65. Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication.
66. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
69. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
70. A port city in southern Wales on an inlet of the Bristol Channel.
72. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
75. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
77. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
81. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
84. Tall hat.
86. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
87. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
88. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
91. The act of drawing or hauling something.
93. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
94. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
95. The ossicle between the malleus and the stapes.
96. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
97. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
98. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
99. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
100. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. Wearing or provided with clothing.
2. A wound made by cutting.
3. Strike with a flat object.
4. A country on the island of Jamaica.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Someone who eats no animal products at all.
7. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
8. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
9. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
10. A chronic drinker.
11. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
12. The father of your father or mother.
13. Read anew.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
15. Offensively curious or inquisitive.
25. Included seven times in every 19 years.
27. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
29. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
31. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
33. A drug (trade name Tagamet) used to treat peptic ulcers by decreasing the secretion of stomach acid.
36. Sew together very finely.
38. A member of the North American Indian people of the Pit river valley in northern California.
39. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
41. Place or set apart.
42. A fishing net with three layers.
45. A large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. 1 species.
52. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce.
53. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
54. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
56. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
58. The hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn.
61. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
62. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
64. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
68. Capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China.
69. Someone who eats no animal products at all.
71. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
72. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
73. Go on board.
74. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living around Cayuga Lake in New York state.
76. Lower in esteem.
77. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
78. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
82. A branch of the Tai languages.
83. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
85. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
89. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
90. Uncastrated adult male sheep.
92. A local computer network for communication between computers.
93. An informal term for a father.

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