Crossword Puzzle Number 1986 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An enclosed space.
4. A vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk.
9. A bachelor's degree in music.
13. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
16. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
17. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
18. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
22. Chief port of Yemen.
23. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
24. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
27. United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973).
29. Any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning.
31. An insane person.
32. French playwright (1791-1861).
34. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
36. Imprudently incurring risk.
39. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
40. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
45. That is to say.
46. A person who participates in a meeting.
49. English monk and scholar (672-735).
51. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements.
52. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
55. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
56. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
57. (of characters in literature or drama) Evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings.
59. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
60. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
63. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
64. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
65. Admission to a group (especially a college or university).
68. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
69. (anatomy) A small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve).
72. The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal.
73. A slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish.
75. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
76. A public promotion of some product or service.
78. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
79. By bad luck.
82. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
84. A yellow quartz.
86. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
88. Having help.
92. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
93. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
96. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
98. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
99. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
101. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
102. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
103. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
104. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
105. A family of Amerindian languages spoken in California.
106. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
107. The compass point midway between south and southeast.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Being one more than one hundred.
4. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
5. A British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages.
6. Act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief.
7. A person who rises (especially from bed).
8. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
9. The Creator.
10. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
11. Not ended.
12. A male human offspring.
13. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
14. A branch of the Tai languages.
15. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
25. A quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water) v 1.
26. A party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house).
28. Covered with paving material.
30. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. Clouding of the natural lens of the eye.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. Iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate.
38. Something or someone that causes anxiety.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
43. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
50. A genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF.
53. A state in New England.
54. French mime famous for his sad-faced clown (born in 1923).
58. The square of a body of any size of type.
61. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
62. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
66. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
67. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
70. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its inhabitants.
71. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
74. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
77. A Mid-Atlantic state.
80. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
81. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
83. A genus of Lamnidae.
85. A slender double-reed instrument.
87. On or toward the lee.
89. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
90. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
91. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
94. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
95. A kind of person.
97. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
100. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.

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