Crossword Puzzle Number 1777 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
4. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
9. Goddess of fertility.
13. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
18. A crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things.
19. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
20. The habitation of wild animals.
22. Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America.
24. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
26. Undo the ties of.
28. English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents.
30. The lowest brass wind instrument.
31. Be unsuccessful.
32. A portable gun.
34. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
36. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
39. Put in a new, usually larger, pot, as of a plant that has grown.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
46. Register formally.
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
49. Exhibiting self-importance.
51. An attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill).
53. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
54. Being one more than fifty.
55. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
56. Being one more than two.
57. A doctor's degree in religion.
60. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
63. An island of central Hawaii.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
67. An Anatolian language.
69. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
71. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
72. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
73. A long-playing phonograph record.
74. The square of a body of any size of type.
81. Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.
83. A large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout.
87. Tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit.
88. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
91. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
92. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
93. Most important element.
95. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
96. A notable achievement.
97. (Irish) The sea personified.
98. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
99. Fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric.
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. A threadlike anatomical structure or chainlike series of cells.
2. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
3. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
4. 1/10 gram.
5. English leader (born in Germany) of the Royalist forces during the English Civil War (1619-1682).
6. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
7. Possessing qualities befitting a man.
8. American novelist (1909-1955).
9. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
10. Of surpassing excellence.
11. Being nine more than ninety.
12. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
13. Tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
15. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
21. The fur of the North American racoon.
23. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
25. A wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons).
27. A large and stately mansion.
29. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. An informal term for a father.
37. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
38. Close or warm friendship.
40. Of or relating to the enteron.
41. Cause to move forward with force.
42. A son who has the same first name as his father.
44. A port city in southwestern Iran.
48. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
50. Pungent fleshy edible root.
52. A state in New England.
58. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
59. A state in midwestern United States.
61. (New Testament) One of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus.
62. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
64. A city in northwestern Syria.
65. A town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula.
68. Of or relating to or functioning as a clause.
69. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
70. A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom.
71. Tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers.
75. A passage with access only at one end.
76. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
77. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
78. A Finnish steam bath.
79. Of or like a cecum.
80. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
82. The highest level or degree attainable.
84. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
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.
89. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
90. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
94. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.

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