Crossword Puzzle Number 2147 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. A native or inhabitant of Finland.
12. On the positive side or higher end of a scale.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
18. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
19. A floor covering.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
23. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. Bone linking the scapula and sternum.
28. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
29. Being two more than fifty.
31. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
33. A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico.
37. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
41. Lower in esteem.
42. Weapons considered collectively.
46. A small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye.
48. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia.
49. A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
53. The content of cognition.
56. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
58. A state in the eastern United States.
59. Cut or impressed into a surface.
60. A faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask.
62. The basic unit of money in Peru.
65. A colorless odorless gas used as fuel.
66. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
67. The application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture.
69. A person who habitually pretends to be something he is not.
71. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
72. A native American tent.
74. Cause to be more favorably inclined.
76. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
80. Before noon.
82. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
83. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
89. English author.
92. Be noisy with activity.
94. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
95. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
96. Of a pale purple color.
98. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
99. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
100. Free from liquid or moisture.
101. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
102. Fallow deer.
103. Tag the base runner to get him out.

DOWN

1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. Having leadership guidance.
5. Call forth.
6. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
9. A religious sect founded in the United States in 1966.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. In an exposed manner.
12. A cloth having a crisscross design.
13. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
14. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
15. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
22. The eleventh month of the civil year.
25. An aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers.
27. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
32. In bed.
34. Acting according to certain accepted standards.
35. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
36. French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826).
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. An oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina.
40. Censure severely.
43. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
44. An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate.
45. (Greek mythology) One of the three Gorgons.
47. A relation that provides the foundation for something.
50. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
54. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or the keel of a ship.
55. Make certain of.
57. Eliminate from the body.
61. A republic in western South America.
63. The third day of the week.
64. Make worse or less effective.
68. Bedding rolled up for carrying.
69. Call forth.
70. Small Old and New World herons.
71. In an exposed manner.
73. A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces.
75. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
77. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
78. (informal) Of the highest quality.
79. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
81. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
84. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
85. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
86. Characteristic of false pride.
87. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
88. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
90. A column of light (as from a beacon).
91. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
93. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
97. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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