Crossword Puzzle Number 3763 (Large Grid)

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1. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
4. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
8. South African term for `boss'.
12. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
16. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
17. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
18. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
19. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
20. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
21. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
23. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
24. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
26. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
28. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
29. The twelfth month of the Hindu calendar.
32. Being ten more than one hundred.
33. Make off with belongings of others.
35. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
38. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
42. One million periods per second.
44. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
46. Give over.
47. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
48. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
50. Lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia.
52. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
53. Any of various brown and yellow finches of pats of Europe.
55. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
56. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
58. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
59. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
66. A rapid bustling commotion.
67. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
68. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
69. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
70. French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873).
73. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
75. A state in New England.
76. Making lively and joyful.
77. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
79. The emotion of hate.
81. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
82. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
84. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
86. An industrial city in central Japan on southern Honshu.
90. Type genus of the Phocidae.
92. Any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons.
95. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
96. An appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food.
99. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.
100. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
101. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
103. Lacking in light.
104. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
105. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
106. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
107. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.

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1. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
2. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
3. United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967).
4. Coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico.
5. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
6. An appreciable consequence (especially a lessening).
7. An informal term for a father.
8. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
9. The month following July and preceding September.
10. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
11. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
12. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
13. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
14. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
15. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. Inability to recognize objects by use of the senses.
27. Any system of principles or beliefs.
30. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
31. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
34. Loose or flaccid body fat.
36. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
37. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
39. Genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha.
40. A substance that abrades or wears down.
41. A sandal with flat heels and an upper of woven leather straps.
43. Of or relating to a creed.
45. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
49. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
51. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
54. Make or become black.
57. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
60. A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
62. Someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels.
63. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
65. Covered with paving material.
71. A South African plant of the genus Othonna having smooth often fleshy leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
72. How long something has existed.
74. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
78. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
80. A Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo.
81. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
83. Transient cessation of respiration.
85. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
87. Of or being the lowest female voice.
88. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
89. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
91. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
93. (Norse mythology) The primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world.
94. Young sheep.
97. A resource.
98. The month following January and preceding March.
102. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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