Crossword Puzzle Number 3977 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
4. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
9. A city in northern India.
13. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
16. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
17. Squash bugs.
18. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
19. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
20. A doctor's degree in education.
21. A place of inviolable privacy.
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of Semites.
25. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
27. Of or relating to or characteristic of Zaire or its people.
29. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. A coil of rope or wool or yarn.
35. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Of or related to a musical scale.
42. Dance the slam dance.
46. Weapons considered collectively.
47. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
48. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
53. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
54. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
57. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
58. (printing) Written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it.
60. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
62. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
63. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
64. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
67. Affect with wonder.
69. Very attentive or observant.
72. A loud harsh or strident noise.
74. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
80. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
83. Formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water.
85. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
86. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
87. A person who travels through the water by swimming.
91. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
92. The eighth month of the civil year.
93. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
95. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
96. Used of a single unit or thing.
97. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
98. Suggestive of the supernatural.
99. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.

DOWN

1. Of or relating to or involving an area.
2. A genus of Ploceidae.
3. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
4. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
7. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
8. A dyed fabric.
9. A native or inhabitant of Armenia.
10. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
11. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
12. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
13. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
14. Many times at short intervals.
15. Offering little or no hope.
22. An ester of carbamic acid.
24. Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975).
26. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
28. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
31. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
33. Beat with a cane.
34. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
38. Of or relating to a creed.
39. Marked by smartness in dress and manners.
40. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
41. Source of a tough elastic wood.
43. A city of southeastern Mexico.
44. A city in central southwestern Iran.
45. A salt of any halogen acid.
50. The younger of two major political parties in the United States.
52. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
56. An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city.
59. Of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4.
61. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
65. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
66. A simple protein containing mainly basic amino acids.
67. A native or inhabitant of Armenia.
68. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
69. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
70. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
71. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
73. One thousand periods per second.
75. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
76. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
77. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.
78. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
79. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
81. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
82. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
84. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
88. A port in southwestern Scotland.
89. A slight amount or degree of difference.
90. (formerly) A title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt.
94. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.

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