Crossword Puzzle Number 1792 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
5. Rounded like an egg.
9. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
13. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
16. An aromatic balsam.
17. Fallow deer.
18. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.
21. Make false by mutilation or addition.
23. New Zealand conifer.
25. United States baseball player (born 1925).
26. A member of a people of India living in Maharashtra.
28. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
29. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
34. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
37. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. (Roman mythology) The twin brother of Romulus.
44. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
45. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
46. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
50. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
51. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
53. A port city in southwestern Iran.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
55. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
56. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
59. Common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally.
62. Inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus.
63. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
65. Being one more than one hundred.
66. A clay pipe with a short stem.
68. A group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean.
69. An artificial language related to Ido.
72. An informal term for a father.
73. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
75. A public promotion of some product or service.
76. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
78. The capital of Western Samoa.
81. Causing great physical or mental suffering.
84. Lower in esteem.
88. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
90. A genus of the family Droseraceae.
92. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
93. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
94. Award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999).
96. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
98. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
99. A decree that prohibits something.
100. A republic in eastern Africa.
101. A town in north central Oklahoma.
102. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.

DOWN

1. A woman's close-fitting foundation garment.
2. Genus of African timber trees.
3. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
4. Medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree.
5. A doctor's degree in optometry.
6. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
9. A person who is not very bright.
10. Any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudo-bulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers.
11. A state in New England.
12. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
13. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
14. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
15. Type genus of the Majidae.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
33. An associate degree in applied science.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
38. Covered with or as with a canopy.
39. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
41. Give an explanation for.
42. United States playwright (born in 1947).
43. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
47. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
48. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
49. Set up for use.
52. Type genus of the family Hirudinidae.
57. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
58. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
60. Production of a certain amount.
61. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
67. Excessive desire to eat.
68. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
70. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
71. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
74. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
77. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
79. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
80. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
82. A member of the Dravidian people living in the Nilgiri hills in southern India.
83. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
85. Beside one another in a row or rank.
86. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
87. Very dark black.
89. Inquire about.
91. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
95. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
97. Being one hundred more than three hundred.

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