Crossword Puzzle Number 3999 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Obscene terms for female genitals.
5. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
16. 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.
17. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
18. In bed.
19. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
20. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
21. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency.
23. A hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck.
25. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
27. A loss of will power.
29. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
30. Softly bright or radiant.
33. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.
36. In truth (often tends to intensify).
39. German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811).
42. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
46. Compel or impose.
47. (combining form) Acting or functioning as a regent or ruler.
48. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
49. A period of time spent sleeping.
50. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
52. An authoritative person who divines the future.
54. An associate degree in nursing.
56. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
60. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
61. A city in east central Texas.
63. A jar for holding jellies or preserves.
64. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
66. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
69. A Loloish language.
70. Muslim name for God.
72. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
73. Genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants.
75. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
79. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
80. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
82. Genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers.
88. Pertaining to animals or animal life or action.
89. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
91. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
92. Noisy talk.
93. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
97. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
98. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
99. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
100. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
101. The longest division of geological time.

DOWN

1. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
2. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
3. A city of central China.
4. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York state.
7. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
8. A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms.
9. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
10. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
11. English monk and scholar (672-735).
12. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
13. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
14. Naturally having skin of a dark color.
15. A native American tent.
22. Riding a light one-man toboggan.
24. A Chadic language spoken in the Mandara mountains in Cameroon.
26. A soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery.
28. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens.
31. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
32. 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.
34. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
35. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
37. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
38. (prefix) Outside or outer.
40. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
41. A triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof.
43. An account describing incidents or events.
44. Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798).
45. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
51. A Hindu prince or king in India.
53. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
55. Of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen.
57. A brief indulgence of your impulses.
58. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
59. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
62. The principles of a body of 19th century English reformers who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people.
65. In the way indicated.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
68. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
71. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
74. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
76. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
77. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
78. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
81. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
82. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
83. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
84. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
85. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
86. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
87. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
90. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
94. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
95. Informal terms for a mother.
96. A public promotion of some product or service.

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