Crossword Puzzle Number 3177 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
9. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
13. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
16. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
17. English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika.
18. A kiln for drying hops.
19. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
20. Not fanciful or imaginative.
22. Make lighter or brighter.
24. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
25. Large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters.
26. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.
28. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
30. A sum of money paid.
31. In a convenient manner.
33. The sixth month of the civil year.
36. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
37. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
45. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
48. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
50. Having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices.
52. After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'.
53. Black tropical American cuckoo.
54. X-ray picture of the kidneys and ureters after injection of a radiopaque dye.
58. Leather from the hide of a deer.
60. Of or relating to or forming an isthmus.
62. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
63. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
66. A Russian river.
67. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
68. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
72. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
74. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
75. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
76. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
81. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
85. An associate degree in applied science.
86. City in Sudan.
89. (legal terminology) The Latin word for wife.
91. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
92. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
93. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
94. A telephone connection.
95. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
96. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
97. Remote and separate physically or socially.
98. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
99. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

DOWN

1. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
2. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
3. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
4. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
5. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
6. A famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813).
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
9. A commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River.
10. The sound of laughing.
11. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
12. Make famous for ever.
13. Command against.
14. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
15. An expression of greeting.
21. Having or denoting a high range.
23. The literary intelligentsia.
27. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
29. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
32. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
34. The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail).
35. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
40. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago).
41. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. A longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it.
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people.
44. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
49. The unit of plane angle adopted under the System International d'Unites.
51. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
55. Cause to ripen.
56. A state in New England.
57. Innumerable but many.
59. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
61. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
64. Not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
65. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
69. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
70. Advance evidence for.
71. Used of old persons or old trees.
73. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
77. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
78. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
79. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
80. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
82. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
83. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
84. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
87. Informal terms for the mouth.
88. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
90. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.

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