Crossword Puzzle Number 4142 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
4. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
8. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
12. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
16. The residue that remains when something is burned.
17. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
18. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
19. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
20. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
21. A genus of Mustelidae.
22. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
23. The cry made by sheep.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
27. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
34. Pile of waste matter from coal mining etc.
39. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
43. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
44. Acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan).
48. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
50. The eleventh month of the civil year.
51. Being one more than fifty.
52. An informal conversation.
53. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
54. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
56. (especially of promises or contracts) Not violated or disregarded.
57. The airforce of Great Britain.
58. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
59. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
61. Anise- and licorice-flavored liqueur.
64. (Brit) An area of open or forested country.
66. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.
67. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
68. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
69. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
71. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
72. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
73. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
75. Generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature.
78. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
81. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
89. A position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable.
92. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
94. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
95. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
97. A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure.
99. A branch of the Tai languages.
100. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
101. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
102. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
103. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. One thousandth of a second.
3. A doctor's degree in theology.
4. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
5. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
6. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
7. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
8. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
9. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
10. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
11. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
12. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
13. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
14. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. A flock of geese.
28. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
33. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
35. Widespread genus or herbs or soft-wooded arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Generally approved or compelling recognition.
38. In the right manner.
40. A stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors.
41. A skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton.
42. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
45. (prefix) Within.
46. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
47. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
49. Motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work.
55. United States labor leader who was the first president of the AFL-CIO (1894-1980).
60. A doctor's degree in optometry.
62. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
63. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
65. Filled with a great quantity.
70. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
74. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
76. Type genus of the Nepidae.
77. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
78. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
79. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
80. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
82. A large quantity of written matter.
83. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
84. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
85. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
86. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
87. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
88. Resembling or similar.
90. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
91. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
93. Seek someone's favor.
96. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
97. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
98. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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