Crossword Puzzle Number 4299 (Large Grid)

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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. State in northeastern India.
9. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
13. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
16. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
17. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
18. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
19. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
20. Porridge made of rolled oats.
22. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
23. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
24. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
25. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
27. One who adheres to traditional views.
29. A hard protective sheath as secreted by certain protoctists e.g..
31. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
34. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
35. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
36. French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style (tight bodice and narrow waist and flowing pleated skirt) that became known as the New Look (1905-1957).
37. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
40. Having had the bones removed.
45. Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria.
47. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
49. The ninth month of the civil year.
50. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
52. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
54. 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.
55. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
57. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
61. Being one more than one.
62. Lacking leadership.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964).
66. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
68. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
70. English monk and scholar (672-735).
73. English pianist (1890-1965).
74. A public promotion of some product or service.
75. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
77. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
78. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
80. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
82. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
83. Channel into a new direction.
85. Gone by.
88. Old World woody vines.
91. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
94. An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice.
96. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
97. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
99. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
100. A woman of refinement.
103. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
104. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
105. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
106. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
107. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. The capital and largest city of South Korea.
2. A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed.
3. To come or go into.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
6. Structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests.
9. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
10. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
11. The wife of a sheik.
12. The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating).
13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
14. Located in or toward the back or rear.
15. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
21. Wearing protective mail.
26. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
28. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
30. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. A saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels.
33. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
38. Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
39. (Babylonian) In older pantheon.
41. (Greek mythology) Sea nymph who was a daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
42. A small byte.
43. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
44. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
46. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
59. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
64. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).
66. A member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers.
67. Testacean rhizopods.
69. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
71. Be in accord.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
79. Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome.
81. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
84. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
86. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
87. (trademark) An antacid.
88. A flexible container with a single opening.
89. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
90. Type genus of the Amiidae.
92. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
93. God of death.
95. A tight-fitting headdress.
98. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
101. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
102. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.

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