Crossword Puzzle Number 3323 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. The last (12th) month of the year.
16. Using speech rather than writing.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
18. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
19. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
20. English privateer involved in the slave trade.
21. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. In a competent capable manner.
25. (Greek mythology) God of the heavens.
26. Of time long past.
28. (Irish) The sea personified.
30. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
32. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
40. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
41. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
43. Double star 15.7 light years from Earth.
44. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
45. Informal terms for a mother.
47. (architecture) Oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture.
49. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
50. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
52. United States golfer (born in 1939).
55. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
56. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
58. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
59. Re-equip a factory or plant.
60. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
61. 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.
62. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
64. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
65. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
70. Border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug).
73. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
74. Of or relating to or resulting from rickets.
76. Type genus of the Anatidae.
78. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
79. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
85. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
88. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
89. Board a plane.
92. Black tropical American cuckoo.
93. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
94. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
96. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
97. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
98. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
99. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. Shout loudly and without restraint.
4. (chemistry) Of or related to an alkyl.
5. A Spanish title of respect for a married woman.
6. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
7. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
8. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
9. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
10. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
11. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
12. A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent.
13. A nonenterprising person who is not paying his way.
14. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
15. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
22. Used of a single unit or thing.
27. An arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions.
29. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
31. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
33. Something resembling the head of a nail that is used an an ornamental device.
34. Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997).
35. Iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate.
36. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
37. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
38. A three-tone Chadic language.
39. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
42. A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate.
46. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
48. The part of a coal seam that is being cut.
51. A state of disorder involving group violence.
53. Avatar of Vishnu.
54. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
57. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
63. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
66. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
67. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
68. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
69. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
70. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
71. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
72. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
75. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
77. Large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval smooth-skinned fruit.
78. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
80. A Russian river.
81. A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile).
82. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
83. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
84. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
86. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
87. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
90. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
91. An enclosed space.
95. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.

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