Crossword Puzzle Number 2020 (Large Grid)

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63   64    65 66 67      68   
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79 80 81        82 83    84 85 86 
87     88   89  90   91     
92     93    94   95  96    
97     98         99    

ACROSS

1. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
4. A date.
9. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
13. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
18. Fallow deer.
19. A city in the European part of Russia.
20. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
22. A person's brother or sister.
23. Being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym.
25. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
28. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
29. A brimless Scottish cap with a flat top.
31. A tool for bending.
33. Small genus of shrubs and small trees of New Zealand.
37. At any time.
38. Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980).
45. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
46. Top part of an apron.
48. Terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia.
51. Malicious burning to destroy property.
53. A salesman who travels to call on customers.
54. United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967).
55. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
56. The leader of an Arab village or family.
58. An informal debt instrument.
59. A small island.
61. The state of being ripe.
63. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
65. (Roman Catholic Church) A devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days.
68. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
69. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
70. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
72. Ask for and get free.
74. Type genus of the Xiphiidae.
77. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
79. A mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California.
87. Law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions.
88. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
90. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
91. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
92. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
93. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
96. The sixth month of the civil year.
97. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
98. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.
99. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.

DOWN

1. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
4. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
5. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
6. The face veil worn by Muslim women.
7. Perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America.
8. A small drum with one head of soft calfskin.
9. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
10. Deeply moved.
11. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
12. (British) Your grandmother.
13. Containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor.
14. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
15. An official who carries a mace of office.
21. Herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers.
24. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
26. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
27. Untanned hide especially of cattle.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
34. Cook too long.
35. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
36. Not openly expressed.
39. Make loose or looser.
40. A state in the western United States.
41. Regarded with admiration.
42. A long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor.
43. A small two-wheeled cart for one passenger.
44. A crime that undermines the offender's government.
47. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
49. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
50. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
52. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
57. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
60. Marked by great carelessness.
62. A formal expression of praise.
64. A conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments.
65. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
66. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
67. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
71. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
72. Small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains.
73. (zoology) Relating to frogs and toads.
75. A state in midwestern United States.
76. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
78. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
80. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
81. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
82. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
83. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
84. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
85. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
86. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
89. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
94. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
95. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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