Crossword Puzzle Number 3553 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
4. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
12. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
18. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
19. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
20. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
22. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
24. Imprudently incurring risk.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery.
28. Traveling on horseback.
32. A quantity of no importance.
33. Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers.
39. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
45. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. Involving only main features.
48. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
49. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
50. (botany) Especially of leaves.
51. A small island.
53. The content of cognition.
55. Of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets.
57. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
58. Extremely pleasing.
60. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
61. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
62. Capital of Armenia.
66. A Dravidian language spoken in southeast India.
68. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
70. A theropod dinosaur of the genus Eoraptor.
72. A bachelor's degree in science.
74. Half the width of an em.
75. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
78. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
79. A permanent council of the United Nations.
82. (used of living things especially persons) In an early period of life or development or growth.
85. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
89. Accomplishment of an objective.
91. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
93. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
94. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
95. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
97. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
98. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
99. 100 sene equal 1 tala.
100. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
101. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
102. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.

DOWN

1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
6. Being one more than fifty.
7. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
8. Lower in esteem.
9. Female equine animal.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. A colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent.
12. North American water snakes.
13. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
14. Express or utter with a hiss.
15. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
21. A fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra.
23. A fast sailboat with 3 parallel hulls.
27. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
30. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
31. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
34. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
35. (linguistics) Relating to the ablative case.
36. Italian architect (1508-1580).
37. A very contagious infection of the skin.
38. (pathology) Like a reed or tube.
40. A cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. The capital of Lesotho.
47. A dark purplish red.
52. Marked with the impression of a seal.
54. A Spanish river.
56. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
59. Russian choreographer (1834-1905).
63. An anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy.
64. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
65. A small lump or protuberance.
67. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
69. Informal terms for a mother.
71. A motley assortment of things.
73. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.
76. An ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor.
77. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
80. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
81. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
83. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
84. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
85. Used of a single unit or thing.
86. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
87. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
88. A French abbot.
90. A boy or man.
92. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
96. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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