Crossword Puzzle Number 3686 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. The distinctive spirit of a people or an era.
9. Hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton.
13. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. Become ground down or deteriorate.
18. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
19. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. A clear oily brown solution of cresols in soap.
22. Any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate.
23. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. The largest city and former capital of Turkey.
29. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
32. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
37. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
38. Driven insane.
44. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
46. A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.
47. The protruding part of the lower jaw.
49. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
50. Used of a single unit or thing.
52. A writer of literary works.
54. Work hard.
55. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
57. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
58. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
60. Foam or froth on the sea.
62. Hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany.
64. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
67. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
71. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery.
73. A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
75. Short and fat.
77. Being six more than fifty.
78. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
80. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
82. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
86. On, to, or at the top.
87. Not only so, but.
90. The capital of Western Samoa.
92. The cry made by sheep.
93. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
94. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
95. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
96. A cgs unit of work or energy.
97. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
98. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
99. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
100. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.

DOWN

1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. The fatty flesh of eel.
5. A date.
6. Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers.
7. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
8. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
9. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
10. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
11. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
13. A stock or supply of foods.
14. Ask for and get free.
15. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
25. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
27. Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast.
28. Extreme mental retardation.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
33. (British) A restaurant where tea and light meals are available.
34. (Scotland) Made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach.
35. The framework of a bed.
36. In the Roman calendar.
39. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
40. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
41. An appearance of reflected light.
42. Genus of terrestrial orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem.
43. The brightest star in Scorpius.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
48. Characteristic of or relating to winter.
51. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter.
53. (informal) Of the highest quality.
56. Ice cream served with a topping.
59. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
61. A card game played with a 48-card pack (two of each suit for high cards).
63. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
65. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
66. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
68. 1 species.
69. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
70. English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812).
72. Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range.
74. (usually followed by `to') Determined by tragic fate.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
76. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
77. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
79. Type genus of the Hylidae.
80. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
81. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
83. In bed.
84. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
85. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
88. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
89. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
91. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.

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