Crossword Puzzle Number 3392 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
4. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
8. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
12. Make a plat of.
16. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
17. Made of fir or pine.
18. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
19. Type genus of the Ranidae.
20. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
22. Someone who enters by force in order to conquer.
25. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
27. The capital of Croatia.
28. State in northeastern India.
29. A quantity of no importance.
32. An abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. Covered with a firm surface.
45. A desert in central Asia.
46. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
49. Male red deer.
50. United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association.
52. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
53. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
55. Make anew.
56. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
58. A Mid-Atlantic state.
59. Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters.
61. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
63. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
65. Complacently or inanely foolish.
66. The middle area of the human torso (usually in front).
68. Having the slant of a bevel.
70. Marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds.
72. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
79. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
80. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
81. A vehicle resembling a bicycle but having skis instead of wheels.
84. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
88. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
90. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
91. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
92. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
93. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
97. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
98. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
99. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
100. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
101. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

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1. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
2. Fallow deer.
3. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
4. A doctor's degree in optometry.
5. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
6. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
7. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
8. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
9. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
10. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
11. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
12. A high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc..
13. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
14. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
15. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
21. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. With no effort to conceal.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
30. An honorary degree in science.
31. An associate degree in nursing.
33. An instance of oratory.
34. Elongate very slender water scorpions.
35. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
36. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
39. A substance that abrades or wears down.
40. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits.
43. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
44. A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance.
47. Leave immediately.
48. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
51. A line that forms the length of an arrow pointer.
54. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
57. Immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies.
60. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
62. Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward.
64. The cry made by sheep.
67. Extremely pleasing.
69. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
71. Of or like a cecum.
73. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
74. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.
76. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
77. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
82. God of love and erotic desire.
83. English monk and scholar (672-735).
85. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
86. Very dark black.
87. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
89. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
94. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
95. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
96. Informal terms for a mother.

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