Crossword Puzzle Number 3717 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
9. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
13. Standard temperature and pressure.
16. An accountant certified by the state.
17. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
18. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
19. A person active in party politics.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people.
23. A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare.
25. Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.
27. Trace the shape of.
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
30. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
31. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
32. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
34. A type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion (especially corrosion by sea water).
39. Edible bulb of an onion plant.
40. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people.
45. United States composer (born in Italy) of operas (born in 1911).
47. An informal term for a father.
48. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
50. A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder.
51. A soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel.
54. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
55. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
56. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
57. A golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers).
58. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
59. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
64. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
71. United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999).
75. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
76. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
77. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
81. A dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten).
83. Brought together into a group or crowd.
85. An associate degree in applied science.
86. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
87. An Eskimo hut.
89. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
90. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
91. The seed of the cereal grass.
92. A city in north-central India.
93. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract.
94. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.

DOWN

1. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. Sprinkled over.
5. Based on racial intolerance.
6. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people.
8. A doctor's degree in education.
9. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
10. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
11. Broad in scope or content.
12. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
13. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
14. Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words.
15. A military trainee (as at a military academy).
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. A cracker sprinkled with salt before baking.
26. A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
28. Wine from muscat grapes.
33. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
35. Lacking interest or spirit or animation.
36. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
37. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
38. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
41. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
42. Of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language.
43. Reduce the level of land, as by erosion.
44. Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction.
46. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
49. A funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane.
52. A city in southern Finland.
53. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. An ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC.
61. An unforeseen obstacle.
62. A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal).
63. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
65. Put into a proper or systematic order.
66. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
67. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
68. The doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus.
69. Offering fun and gaiety.
70. (of tempo) Very fast adv 1.
72. At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.
73. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
74. (of e.g. celestial bodies) Above the horizon.
78. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
79. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
80. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
82. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
83. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
84. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
88. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.

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