Crossword Puzzle Number 4408 (Large Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
13. Two-year-old sheep.
16. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
17. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
18. A unit of subjective loudness.
19. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
20. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
22. An official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement.
25. A French abbot.
26. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
28. In bed.
31. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
33. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
35. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
37. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
41. Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.
46. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship.
49. A port city in southwestern Iran.
51. United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882).
53. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
54. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
55. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and North Asia.
56. A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel).
58. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
60. (British) Your grandmother.
61. A genus of tropical and subtropical Old World climbers or shrubs or trees.
66. To gain with effort.
67. Of or relating to or involving an area.
70. Coconut palms.
71. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
72. A family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales.
74. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
77. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
78. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
80. Port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan.
84. A loose dressing gown for women.
89. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
90. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.
92. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
93. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
95. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
97. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
98. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
99. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
100. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
101. A branch of the Tai languages.

DOWN

1. Fallow deer.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
7. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
8. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
9. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
10. Wearing footgear.
11. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
12. Not out.
13. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
14. At or constituting a border or edge.
15. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
21. Align anew or better.
23. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
24. Tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor.
27. The month following February and preceding April.
29. Something causes misery or death.
30. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
32. A master's degree in education.
34. The triad of divinities of later Hinduism.
36. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods.
38. A genus of Fringillidae.
39. (formerly) A horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door.
40. A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens.
42. Any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system.
43. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
44. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
45. A European river.
50. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
52. Something that is a source of danger.
57. Being two more than fifty.
59. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
62. Any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor.
63. An agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach).
64. Brain corals.
65. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
68. A small piece of cloth.
69. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
73. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
75. Jordan's port.
76. A state in New England.
79. Having winglike extensions.
81. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
82. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
83. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
84. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
85. Informal terms for a meal.
86. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
87. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
88. (prefix) Within.
91. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
94. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
96. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.

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