Crossword Puzzle Number 3882 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
5. The highest level or degree attainable.
9. A book of the New Testament.
13. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
17. A boy or man.
18. A unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter.
19. How long something has existed.
20. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. A three-tone Chadic language.
22. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
23. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
24. English statesman famous for his oratory.
26. Type genus of the Lacertidae.
28. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
29. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
31. A humorous anecdote or remark.
34. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
38. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
41. Extremely robust.
44. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
45. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
46. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
47. Half the width of an em.
48. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
50. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
52. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
55. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
56. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
58. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
59. (Irish) The sea personified.
60. An Anatolian language.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. In operation or operational.
69. Jewelled pendant worn on a chain around the neck.
71. East Asian perennial herbs.
74. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
75. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
76. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
80. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
84. Goddess of war.
86. With one layer on top of another.
88. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
89. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
90. A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid).
92. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
94. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
95. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
96. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
97. A small nail.
98. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.

DOWN

1. A coarse obnoxious person.
2. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
3. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
4. An acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor.
5. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
6. A genus of Chelonethida.
7. God of death.
8. Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
10. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
11. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
12. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
13. A motley assortment of things.
14. American novelist (1909-1955).
15. A notable achievement.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
30. A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
32. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
33. A grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically).
35. A characteristic sound.
36. Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers.
37. A person who eats human flesh.
39. Cause to grow thin or weak.
40. Someone who expresses strong approval.
42. Type genus of the Gelechiidae.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
51. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
54. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
57. A member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila.
62. French novelist.
64. Capital of Swaziland.
65. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
66. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
67. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
68. Of or relating to the spinal cord.
69. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
70. A state in the eastern United States.
72. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
73. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
77. A sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information.
78. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
79. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
81. A sudden short attack.
82. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
83. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
85. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
87. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
91. Before noon.
93. A doctor's degree in religion.

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