Crossword Puzzle Number 2992 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A resource.
4. Cause to be embarrassed.
9. The general activity of selling.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
16. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
17. A large stringed instrument.
18. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
19. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
22. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
23. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
24. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
26. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
29. A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter).
31. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
32. Someone who has had a limb removed by amputation.
35. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
37. Colloquial British abbreviation.
40. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
41. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
45. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
46. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
47. Of or relating to or characteristic of Mali or its people.
49. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
51. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
53. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
55. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
56. (Babylonian) The sky god.
57. A quantity of no importance.
60. A state in midwestern United States.
61. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
62. British slang.
64. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
68. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
71. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
73. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
75. Continuing or remaining in a place or state.
77. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
81. God of love and erotic desire.
82. Sharp piercing cry.
84. Type genus of the Percidae.
88. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
91. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
93. An associate degree in applied science.
94. Being one more than two.
95. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
96. In bed.
97. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
98. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
99. A noisy riotous fight.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
101. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.

DOWN

1. Type genus of the Anatidae.
2. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
3. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
4. Narrow and long and pointed.
5. With considerable certainty.
6. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
7. Make a splashing sound.
8. One of the 7 gods of happiness.
9. The act of scanning.
10. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
11. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
12. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
13. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
14. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
27. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
28. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
30. A man who serves as a sailor.
33. Swedish physicist (born in Austria) who worked in the field of radiochemistry with Otto Hahn and formulated the concept of nuclear fission with Otto Frisch (1878-1968).
34. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
36. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
38. Rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something.
39. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
42. The face or front of a building.
43. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
44. A state in northwestern North America.
48. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
50. A motley assortment of things.
52. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
54. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
58. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. A republic in eastern Africa.
65. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
66. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
67. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827).
71. Make a splashing sound.
72. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
74. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
76. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
78. (physical chemistry) A distinct state of matter in a system.
79. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
80. Jordan's port.
83. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
85. Type genus of the Ranidae.
86. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
87. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
89. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
90. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
92. A young woman making her debut into society.

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