Crossword Puzzle Number 1992 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
4. Divulge information or secrets.
8. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
12. Type genus of the Anatidae.
16. Being one more than six.
17. A genus of Mustelidae.
18. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
19. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
20. The arch of the foot.
22. A vaguely specified concern.
24. The capital of Western Samoa.
25. A Loloish language.
26. An Anatolian language.
28. The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
30. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.
32. Evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia.
34. A master's degree in literature.
37. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
41. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
44. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
46. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
50. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
52. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
54. (computer science) A rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input.
55. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
57. The side that is forward or prominent.
59. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
60. United State educator who compiled the McGuffey Eclectic Readers (1800-1873).
62. Less than acute.
64. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
65. A public promotion of some product or service.
68. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).
69. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. A state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal.
74. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
76. A Russian river.
78. A mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women.
79. Unusual or striking.
86. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
87. A city in southwestern Congo.
89. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
90. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
91. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
92. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
94. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
95. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
96. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
97. The sixth month of the civil year.
98. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. Morally bad or wrong.
2. Tropical Asian starlings.
3. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.
4. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
5. Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504).
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. A crime syndicate in the United States.
9. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
10. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
11. A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
12. Jordan's port.
13. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
14. Type genus of the Apidae.
15. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
21. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming.
23. Well known or easily recognized.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
31. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
33. A doctor's degree in optometry.
35. French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829).
36. A nonexistent person popularized by American servicemen during World War II.
38. Habitually reserved and uncommunicative.
39. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
40. Smaller than Florida pompano.
42. Having leaves or leaves as specified.
43. United States poet and critic (1899-1979).
45. One millionth of a gram.
47. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
48. A dense growth of bushes.
49. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
51. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
53. Founder of Buddhism.
56. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
58. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.
61. Extremely pleasing.
63. Shepherd's purse.
66. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
67. A decree that prohibits something.
70. A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt.
71. An expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb.
73. A sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil.
75. An oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract of urinary tract or bones or joints.
77. Sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something.
78. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
80. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
81. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
82. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
83. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
84. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
85. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
88. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
89. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
93. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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