Crossword Puzzle Number 3321 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
12. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
16. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
17. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
18. Using speech rather than writing.
19. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
20. Having leadership guidance.
21. Any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway.
22. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
23. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
24. Singing jazz.
26. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
32. Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
40. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
43. A town twenty miles east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name).
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. (British) Liable to payment of rates or taxes.
48. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
49. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
50. A dark purplish red.
53. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
55. A downhill race over a winding course defined by upright poles.
57. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
58. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
60. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
61. Having low density.
63. Type genus of the Anatidae.
65. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
66. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
67. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
72. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
74. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
75. Causing a dull and steady pain.
78. Not liable to error.
81. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
83. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
86. An airfoil that controls lateral motion.
88. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
90. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
91. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
92. (archaic) Of persons.
94. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
95. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
96. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
97. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
98. A short personal letter.
99. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. An associate degree in applied science.
5. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
6. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
7. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
8. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
9. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
10. A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong.
11. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
12. Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904).
13. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
14. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
15. A quantity that is added.
25. United States abolitionist (1786-1865).
27. Conforming to truth.
29. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. Moderate or restrain.
33. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
34. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
35. A governor of a province in ancient Persia.
36. Someone who owes money.
37. Loud and resounding.
38. Lace bugs.
41. (trademark) An antacid.
42. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
44. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
46. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
51. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
52. Breathing heavily.
54. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
56. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
59. Of or relating to the songbirds n.
62. Having deserted a cause or principle.
64. A republic in central Europe.
68. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
69. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
70. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
71. The capital and largest city of Iran.
73. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
76. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
77. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
79. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
80. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
82. A rounded projection or protuberance.
84. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
85. Make amends for.
87. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
89. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
93. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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