Crossword Puzzle Number 1983 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
4. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
8. Tropical Asian starlings.
12. (of molten metal or glass) Formed by pouring or pressing into a mold n 1.
16. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
17. A disorderly outburst or tumult.
18. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
19. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
20. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
22. A short pithy instructive saying.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
26. At an angle.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
29. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
36. With no effort to conceal.
39. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
41. City in northeast Pakistan.
45. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
46. Arctic foxes.
48. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
50. Someone new to a field or activity.
52. A group of southern Bantu languages.
54. A sign of something about to happen.
55. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
56. A parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. Dwell (archaic).
60. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
65. (British) Your grandmother.
66. The residue that remains when something is burned.
67. A master's degree in fine arts.
68. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
71. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
73. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.
77. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
80. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
84. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river.
87. Intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths.
89. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
90. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
91. Type genus of the Gavidae.
93. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
94. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
95. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
96. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
97. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
98. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.

DOWN

1. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
4. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
5. A resident of Utah.
6. Having two feet.
7. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
8. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
9. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
10. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
11. A large fleet.
12. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
13. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
14. Stalk of a moss capsule.
15. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
32. Love intensely.
33. An Italian woman of rank.
34. Toward the mouth or oral region.
35. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
37. Oceanic sharks.
38. That part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders.
40. A mountain in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion.
44. An informal conversation.
47. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct liquids or gases.
51. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. A man who serves as a sailor.
58. Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals.
61. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
62. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
63. God of love and erotic desire.
64. A nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank.
69. Being one more than fifty.
70. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
72. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
74. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
75. United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (born in 1966).
76. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia.
78. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
79. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
80. Informal terms for a mother.
81. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
82. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
83. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
85. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
86. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
87. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
88. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
92. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.

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