Crossword Puzzle Number 4252 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. A battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.
9. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
13. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. A Dardic language spoken in northern Kashmir.
18. Short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent.
19. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
22. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
28. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
32. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. Wood of a sumac.
39. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
43. Type genus of the Anatidae.
46. Selected as the best.
49. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
50. An instinctive motive.
51. An enclosed space.
53. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
54. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
55. Affecting things past.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. Negation of a word or group of words.
61. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
63. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
64. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
66. Any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols.
67. The largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled.
69. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
70. One who assists a minister in a liturgical service.
72. The goddess of the moon.
73. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
75. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
79. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
80. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
87. Type genus of the Gavidae.
91. A lack of vitality.
93. A port city in southwestern Iran.
95. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
96. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
97. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
99. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
100. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
101. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
102. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
103. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
104. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.

DOWN

1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
5. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services.
6. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
7. Continuing forever or indefinitely.
8. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
9. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
10. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
11. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
12. An ancient city is southern Greece.
13. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
14. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
15. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
25. (ballet) Quick gliding steps with one foot always leading.
27. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
29. A garment worn by women in ancient Greece.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A state in northwestern North America.
36. Not worn away by exposure.
37. One of the three prairie provinces in central Canada.
38. Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit.
40. In a tasty manner.
41. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
42. Deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America.
44. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
45. A cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas.
47. The battle in which Attila the Hun was defeated by the Romans and Visigoths in 451.
48. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
52. Prevent from being seen or discovered.
56. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
59. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
60. The Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
62. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
65. A male child (a familiar term of address to a boy).
68. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
71. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
74. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
76. A building where prostitutes are available.
77. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
78. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
79. An informal term for a father.
81. Again but in a new or different way.
82. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
83. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
84. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
85. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
86. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
88. Characteristic of false pride.
89. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
90. The sixth month of the civil year.
92. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
94. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
98. A doctor's degree in optometry.

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