Crossword Puzzle Number 3126 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. A rugged box (usually made of wood).
9. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
13. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
18. Informal terms for money.
19. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
20. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
22. Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers.
25. Clean or orderly.
26. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.
28. Fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers.
30. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
32. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
33. A genus of Sterninae.
37. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
43. Be teeming, be abuzz.
44. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
47. A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost.
48. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
49. A Mid-Atlantic state.
50. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
51. Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither.
52. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. Evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries.
59. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
60. Large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste.
62. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
63. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
64. Largest known toad species.
65. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
66. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
67. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
69. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
70. A steep descent of the water of a river.
75. A Russian river.
76. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
79. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
82. The act of scanning.
89. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
92. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
93. A book of the New Testament.
94. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
96. Advanced in years.
97. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
98. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
99. Type genus of the Majidae.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. East Indian annual erect herb.
2. Clean with one's bill, of birds.
3. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
4. A New England state.
5. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.
6. American Revolutionary patriot.
7. English inventor who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877).
8. English essayist (1775-1834).
9. Jordan's port.
10. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. A state in New England.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. Terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia.
23. Consent reluctantly.
24. An industrial city in the Donets Basin.
27. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
29. 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.
31. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
34. A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one).
35. Neither moral nor immoral.
36. Mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus.
38. A genus of Malayan tree.
39. Causing fear or dread or terror.
40. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
41. The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan.
42. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
45. (Irish) God of love and beauty.
46. Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions.
53. A Protestant layman who assists the minister.
55. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
61. Being nine more than ninety.
68. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
69. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
71. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
72. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
73. The month following February and preceding April.
74. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
75. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
77. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
78. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
80. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
81. English monk and scholar (672-735).
83. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
84. An elaborate song for solo voice.
85. 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.
86. The basic unit of money in Peru.
87. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
88. One million periods per second.
90. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
91. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
95. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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