Crossword Puzzle Number 1760 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Having much flesh (especially fat).
4. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
9. Male red deer.
13. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
16. (Irish) The sea personified.
17. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans.
18. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
19. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
20. An elaborate song for solo voice.
22. A hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course changes.
24. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
26. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
28. Evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia.
30. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
33. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. (formerly) A horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door.
41. Before noon.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
46. The basic unit of money in Sweden.
47. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
49. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
52. Fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air.
53. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
55. Low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage.
57. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
58. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
60. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
61. An audiotape recording of sound.
62. Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres.
64. Any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit.
66. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
67. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
69. A person who gives a name or names.
71. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
77. A small nail.
78. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
79. Swedish economist (1898-1987).
82. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
85. South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918).
88. Suggestive of the supernatural.
89. American novelist (1909-1955).
90. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
92. A connecting point at which several lines come together.
93. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
95. Make amends for.
97. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
98. A decree that prohibits something.
99. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
100. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
101. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.

DOWN

1. An imperfection in a device or machine.
2. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
3. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
6. A genus of Mustelidae.
7. Type genus of the Clupeidae.
8. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
9. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
10. Covered with paving material.
11. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
12. Large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry.
13. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
14. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
15. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
21. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.
27. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
29. How long something has existed.
31. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
32. Interpret by lipreading.
34. A city in the northern panhandle of Texas.
36. Kamarupan languages spoken in the state of Assam in northeastern India.
38. United States paleontologist and popularizer of science (born in 1941).
39. Situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible to the audience.
40. A person who travels through the water by swimming.
43. A person forced to flee from home or country.
45. A boy or man.
48. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps.
50. Being or given to servile imitation.
51. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
54. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
56. Recurrent eye inflammation in horses.
59. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
63. A small smooth rounded rock.
65. United States writer and poet (1905-1989).
68. A soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative.
69. Type genus of the Clupeidae.
70. Evergreen tree of Pacific North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries.
71. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
72. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
73. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
74. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
75. Leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo.
76. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
80. Having help.
81. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
83. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
84. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
86. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
87. A French abbot.
91. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
94. A bachelor's degree in science.
96. The square of a body of any size of type.

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