Crossword Puzzle Number 3990 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895).
9. Look at with amorous intentions.
13. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
16. An awkward stupid person.
17. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
18. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
19. (informal) Of the highest quality.
20. The act of scanning.
22. Suffering from a partial loss of memory.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
27. An intricately connected system of things or people.
30. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
31. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
32. Avatar of Vishnu.
34. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
37. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
41. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
43. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
44. The acetylated derivative of salicylic acid.
46. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
47. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
50. A three-tone Chadic language.
51. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
52. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
53. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
55. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
56. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
62. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
63. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
64. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
65. Someone who consumes food for nourishment.
66. God of love and erotic desire.
67. Directed or moving inward or toward a center.
68. Make reference to.
70. English monk and scholar (672-735).
72. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
73. Type genus of the Blattidae.
78. The basic unit of money in Romania.
79. United States writer remembered for his stories (1783-1859).
87. A city of southeastern Mexico.
89. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
91. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
92. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
93. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
95. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
97. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
98. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment.
99. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
100. A wound made by cutting.
101. Not reflecting light.
102. A state in the Rocky Mountains.

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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
5. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
6. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
7. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
8. The content of cognition.
9. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
10. A city in southeastern Spain.
11. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
12. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
13. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
14. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
15. Humble in spirit or manner.
21. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
23. Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC).
24. Lighted by or as if by twilight.
28. A journey for some purpose (usually including the return).
29. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.
33. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
35. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.
36. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
38. City in central Iran.
39. A person who works only for money.
40. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America.
42. A state in midwestern United States.
45. Matter that remains after something has been removed.
48. Jordan's port.
49. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
54. Any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals many with retractile claws.
57. Upright in position or posture.
58. Relating to the belt or region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast, as in "neritic fauna".
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
61. Having or resembling hoofs.
69. National capital of Kiribati.
71. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
74. The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty.
75. A plant hormone that promotes root formation and bud growth.
76. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan.
77. A bachelor's degree in religion.
80. A quantity of no importance.
81. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
82. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
83. Type genus of the Anatidae.
84. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
85. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
86. Any of various small biting flies.
88. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
90. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
94. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
96. A state in New England.

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